And the Birds Planted a Garden

I'd been meaning to do a series of drawings on ruins ever since I got back from Cambodia, but I tucked all the stock photos I shot away in a folder and forgot about them for months - until my internet connection died for almost a week, and I found myself with nothing better to do. So. Here's hoping *this* isn't the last of them.

Ta Phrom temple, Siem Reap. Built sometime between the late 12th and 13th century by Jayavarman VII, the temple stands out from most other Cambodian temples because of all the trees¹ growing from the rooftops (whose seeds were dropped there by birds, germinated, and proceeded to grow their roots down the walls to the ground over the centuries). The temple was chosen by the École Française d'Extrême-Orient to be left in its original state of ruin to show what most of the Angkor temples looked like when they were discovered in the 19th century.

Also, I believe that parts of Tomb Raider were shot here. I should go and watch that again.

18.5 x 27.9 cm.


Media

Campap 300 gm cold pressed watercolour paper²
Buncho HEXAPLUS Fineliner
- No. 50 (grey): x 1
- No. 6 (light grey): x 3 ³



_{1 Silk-cotton trees and strangler figs.
2 Which guzzles ink the way a seasoned wino sops up booze. Or the way Alaskan mosquitoes (supposedly can) suck a moose dry.
3 Because goddamn aforementioned watercolour paper drank up all my pens.}