Where Time Refused to Pass
The gate was quiet when I arrived.
The final gold of evening had softened the angles of stone. No one else stood there. No bird called. No branch moved.
And yet, she was there—already luminous.
The devata did not announce herself. Her gesture had no intention. Her presence was not a subject; it was a place. Something in me remembered her, though I had never seen her before.
When the shutter opened, it was as if she had chosen the moment. Not I.
Later, the gold was not added—it was returned. Not enhancement, but homecoming.
evening remembers—
the devata does not fade
when the sun departs
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The Crocodile and the Moon Eel: A Tide-Bargain
A crocodile waits in hush where river bends to moonlight. From the silt, a pearl-lit eel rises, whispering a bargain of scale and tide. What is given is never returned whole: hunger meets silence, storm keeps watch, and the river writes its law in breath.
Field Note: Blue Hour at Angkor
The blue hour settles over Angkor like a hush in stone. Naga coils dissolve into shadow, carvings soften into silence, and hunger without teeth endures. A sketch becomes listening. Each fracture is a hymn, each hollow a river. A field note on patience, memory, and the stillness that lingers.
$270
Angkor Wat Temple, Angkor, Cambodia — 2019
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Edition
Strictly limited to 25 prints + 2 Artist’s Proofs
Medium
Hand-toned black-and-white archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo — a museum-grade fine art paper chosen for its quiet tactility and reverent depth, echoing the spirit of the temples.
Signature & Numbering
Each print is individually signed and numbered by the artist on the border (recto)
Certificate of Authenticity
Accompanies every print
Image Size
11.5 x 5.8 inches (29.2 x 14.7 cm)
Evening gathers gently at the western gate of Angkor Wat, and for a breathless moment, the stone holds the sun. There, carved high above the temple threshold, a devata appears not as ornament, but as remembrance—her gaze serene, her gesture offering what cannot be named.
The air is hushed. The wind recedes. And in that luminous hush, she glows—not from the light that strikes her, but from the light she holds.
Lucas Varro captured this image in 2019, using large-format black-and-white film under the final warmth of day. The long exposure was a stillness held in reverence. In the studio, chiaroscuro shaped her form, and gold was applied by hand—not for effect, but as offering. The result is not merely a photograph, but a devotional act rendered in shadow and light.
This signed and numbered archival pigment print is offered in a Strictly Limited Edition of 25 + 2 Artist’s Proofs. Printed on museum-grade Hahnemühle Bamboo paper, each impression is individually hand-toned in gold and carries its own quiet radiance.
A sacred light that endures, waiting to enter the stillness of your space.
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