At first glance, this scene may appear to be pastoral and warm. Its colors are pleasing – the late afternoon golden light has bathed this setting, featuring a Southeast Asian spirit house, and the broken vase below it, in beauty. However, as in the previous image, when we acquire the verbal context supplied by this caption, the image will drastically change its meaning. I deliberately obscure the contents of the spirit house by shooting it from a distance. I offer additional context: that spirit house is filled with fragments of human bone, as well as an abandoned sandal – the residue of the slaughter that took place here in the 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge executioners killed thousands in these very fields. Knowing this, the pastoral scene becomes drenched in tragic irony. How can a scene be so beautiful yet so horrific at the same time? It all depends on what we come to know about the subject, and how we then look at it.