Khmer Legacy: My grandfathers, Pol Pot and me
Printmaking
Both of my grandfathers were killed under Pol Pot's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, taken from our family in the prime of their lives. There were countless other victims in this dark chapter of Cambodia's recent history, and the scars are borne by millions who still survive. Our loss and pain cannot be shared by many of the foreign tourists who clamber over the magnificent Khmer ruins, but in this work my grandfathers' likenesses have been recast as Bayon Temple faces, immortalised in stone and forever alive in our memories....