Day Dream

Thursday, September 20, 2018 Phnom Penh/Cambodia

I feel everyone in the city is chasing development and they forget about healthcare, space for living, even I do it sometimes,” Sreymao said .

Using stock photography of the city and combining it with digital layering to put their own stamp on the cityscape, the duo turn Phnom Penh into a surreal landscape, where the four arms of central market becomes the flowing hair of a woman poking her head out of the ground, while visions of a rarity of nature in the city, grass, sway gently in a sunset.

The idea, Sreymao said, was to “fill the ideas between realism and imagination.”

Sreymao said she wanted to express her anxiety about how rapidly Phnom Penh is losing its connection with nature through her artwork, and yearned for a more thought out, version of her city.

“From time to time I go out of the city and look at it, it feels like we are losing the landscape which is full of space,” Sreymao said.

“We need to have a clear master plan of the city.”