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Celestial beings recording the deeds of humans on looms.
About
Mural painting of weavers located just above an unintentionally comic depiction of hell. The actions of mortals, the good on one loom and the bad on the other, are made permanent in the record of the patterns in woven fabric.
The two looms in my interpretation could represent images and words, each of a separate weave, each carrying the weight of a kind of meaning. This site is my attempt to create narratives made of images with supporting text. Sometimes explanations of rituals and customs, sometimes my own musings on an image’s background.
My efforts to provide detailed text for images taken in Thailand would not be possible without the exceptional staff and resources at the Chiang Mai EFEO library. ขอบคุณสำหรับทุกสิ่ง, Je vous remercie beaucoup!
From the official description about the EFEO:
In 1975 when the EFEO withdrew temporarily from Cambodia, the former head of its Siem Reap Center, Francois Bizot, moved to Thailand in order to continue his research into Buddhism in the Indochinese Peninsula. The EFEO’s Center in Chiang Mai was established definitively in 1988. The Chiang Mai Center also has unique access to very rich documentary collections, particularly in Thai, the field of Buddhism but also including publications on the history, ethnology, literature, and art of Southeast Asia in general.
The French School of Asia Studies (École française d’Extrême-Orient or EFEO) is an institution under the aegis of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research whose scholarly mission is the study of the classical civilizations of Asia through the humanities and social sciences.