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      <image:title>Where the Carving Stopped</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Still Eye — Craft, Meditation, and the Listening Camera</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Red and black chalk study of a Bayon face dissolving into shadow and space, evoking quiet multiplicity and inward stillness.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A red-and-black chalk sketch of an Angkor terrace at dawn: a broom leaning on a square column, a water bowl, a folded cloth, and a freshly swept stone path.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Angkor Lintel Styles and the Language of the Threshold</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Meaning of Life Is a Vow</image:title>
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      <image:title>Awe Without Make-Believe</image:title>
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      <image:title>Naga Vow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sepia-toned banner illustration of a jungle-choked ancient stone doorway, its entrance wrapped by a massive naga-like serpent and tangled roots, leading into deep shadow and mist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Rice-Ghost and the Seven Drums</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Well</image:title>
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      <image:title>Stone That Remembers the Sky</image:title>
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      <image:title>Before Seeing / After Leaving</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Causeway, Remembered</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Robe and the Lotus</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Immune System of Love</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Pact of the Last Sheaf</image:title>
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      <image:title>On Photographing Angkor</image:title>
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      <image:title>On Seeing Angkor</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Wall That Still Holds Them</image:title>
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      <image:title>The Apsara Against the Assembly Line</image:title>
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      <image:title>Before the Door: On No Man Comes Home</image:title>
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