During our Street Art Tour, our guide took us up in one of the skyscrapers of Phnom Penh - partially to look at an art exhibit, but also partially to get a view of the city.
Phnom Penh, as you might recall, became the capitol of the Khmer Empire in A.D. 1432 following the fall of Angkor Wat. It served as the capitol until A.D. 1497, when the capitol moved due to ongoing disputes. It was re-established as the capitol in A.D. 1866.
It sits at the confluence of the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers.
One of the art displays in the building. That large picture...
...is made of individual sections of coloured pencil shavings.
Colored pencil shavings eh? One of the local TV stations showed a gentleman who arranged guitar picks to make art work. Thanks for more travel shots TB.
ReplyDeleteNylon12, I cannot imagine the amount of vision and patience it would take to accomplish an artwork such as this.
DeleteI suppose we are all guilty of this but when I visualize a city in Cambodia, I mentally call up one story structures with thatched roofs spread out through a densely wooded area. In reality, it looks just about like every other major urban city I have ever been too.
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