Slow Monsters
One major lesson from Cambodia (previously noted) is that trees do tentacle horror better than cephalopods — though in slow motion. I think these snaps from Ta Prohm, Ta Som, and Preah Khan make the point quite slitheringly. (They can all be enlarged by clicking.)
Ta Prohm
Ta Som
Preah Khan (not just one temple complex, but one tree).
Watch enough time-lapse plant videos, and you’ll start to believe that plants have volition. That, or “volition” is an emergent property in all “life”.
Nature – What Plants Talk About
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Posted on February 27th, 2014 at 8:20 pm | QuoteBase matter …
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Posted on February 27th, 2014 at 9:44 pm | QuoteBeautiful and haunting. It’s like a visual metaphor for the creep of demotism throughout time, consuming some of the most glorious institutions man has ever created.
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