Red gold
(Painted door at the Doi Suthep temple: Chiang Mai, Thailand)
I’ve decided to trawl through some older images from Thailand last year. I can’t believe it was ten months ago already – it feels simultaneously so vividly fresh and a lifetime ago already. I was truly dazzled by the amount of gold involved in the decoration and structure of the Thai temples – even the modern ones – and here’s an example of just one side door on the Doi Suthep temple on top of a hill.
I couldn’t believe that a simple side door like this one has been so richly decorated; it’s amazing. Every inch of every Buddhist temple was either dripping with gold or a mosaic of impressive rainbow glass fragments. I find it incredible that in many places in the world, buildings like this are still being created, after all, anything so intricately produced in the UK is stuffed in the antiquities section of the local museum or hanging in an art gallery. They don’t make anything like this where I come from, not anymore, and as I look around at any new building cropping up in my homeland, I can be certain it will never turn out like this.
Apologies for missing posts over the past days – I was away at a family event and didn’t manage to keep up…
– Today Rosie is in the UK, getting back into the swing of things –
