Pete Cherches blogs about food, travel, literary pursuits and the occasional dream.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Screw the Temples, Get a Load of This Tree
I think natural occurrences, like this tree at Angkor Thom, are more beautiful than any work of art created by man because they happened by accident, like us.
Not far from the tree, by the way, is Bayon temple.
These photos are fantastic. The structure in the first two photos beneath the tree photo looks like a giant stone hive for humans; the giant (Buddha?) face in relief gives it a dreamlike quality. - Arthur Chertowsky
is the author of two volumes of short prose:
Condensed Book and Between a Dream and a Cup of Coffee, as well as several limited-edition artist's books. His work has recently appeared in the anthologies Poetry 180 and Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. His fiction and short prose work has been featured in a wide range of magazines and journals, including Harper’s, Semiotext(e), Transatlantic Review, Fiction International, and Bomb. Sonorexia, the avant-vaudeville music-performance group he co-led with Elliott Sharp in the 1980s, appeared at such legendary venues as The Mudd Club and CBGB. Cherches is a two-time recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships in creative nonfiction.
2 Comments:
These photos are fantastic. The structure in the first two photos beneath the tree photo looks like a giant stone hive for humans; the giant (Buddha?) face in relief gives it a dreamlike quality. - Arthur Chertowsky
The tree's just fine, but Bayon Temple is a real wow!
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