Eric Prokesh in Cambodia

Dallas designer Eric Prokesh is traveling in Asia, and I’m posting his diaries as they arrive.

A Garden of Ruins-Ta Prohm, in Angkor, Cambodia
When they excavated the area, the French decided to leave this one complex in its natural state. Romantic and evocative, it is something of a fake, its apparent decay requiring careful attention to preserve the remaining structures and keep back jungle vegetation except for the largest sponge trees whose roots and tendrils engulf roofs and walls.

Photo credits: David Astudillo & Eric Prokesh