Artists recreate Angkor Wat's lost carvings
BBC | 20 August 2016
A collection of artists
including a relative of John Constable have been commissioned to
recreate some of the elaborate carvings missing from the temples of
Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
They are working to recreate features including Apsara figures which once decorated the roof of the 900-year-old monument.
One
of the artists is sculptor Sasha Constable - a member of one of
Britain's most famous artistic families - who has been based in Cambodia
since 2000 and works as a teacher and curator as well as producing her
own work.
Saron
has a remarkable story of his own: he is a former soldier and landmine
survivor who retrained as a sculptor, and now employs other disabled
people in his workshop within the Angkor temple complex.
Video produced by Guy De Launey and Nick Wood
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