Gold leaf flakes away in ridged sheets, black grime packed into the seams.
Mottled gold and black patina spreads across a weathered gilded surface.
A vertical seam in the gilded surface collects dense black soot residue.
Rounded gilt lumps break through a crust of black grime.
A soot-blackened gilded guardian statue sits before a Thai temple’s red rooftops, a twin figure visible behind.
Close-up of the guardian statue’s snout and head, gold leaf patchy beneath heavy soot.
Another angle of the statue’s soot-streaked head, twin guardian blurred in the background.
Swirling gold and black patina texture across the statue’s gilded body.
Dense black soot eats into cracked gold leaf across the statue’s surface.
Gold leaf clings in irregular islands across a heavily sooted surface.
The gilded statue’s base meets plain grey render, soot patina fading into bare concrete.
Warm gold-brown patina mottles the statue’s weathered surface in fine grain.
Fine-grained gold and black mottling covers the gilded statue’s flank.
Close mottled detail of soot and gold patina blending across the statue.
