International award-winning and photographer and poet collaborate in this book, representing collaboration and communication between two close friends and artists and two art forms of photographic image and poem. Their project documents the meeting of past and present as ancient Southeast Asian cultures collide with globalization and technology. Their original exhibition in 2007 explored the accuracy of our Western versions of these lands and cultures. Fifteen years later, the fragility of landscapes, species and cultures Clarke witness in Laos and Thailand has only intensified.