“One piece of
information that shocked me was that the crackdown in 2010 caused
over 90 deaths. As a result, the series Whitewash started with a
question to myself. Why have I never realised this in spite of being
in the event and watching the news on television?
In an interview, he
said, “My works between 2015–2017 mainly focus on the process of
mental surgery of authority in Thailand. Beginning with Whitewash in
2015 and 2016, I explore my own ignorance of political violence in
Bangkok in 2010 by returning to places I used to go with the school
during that time. To make a contour sketch of the overall picture of
mind control, I made Mt. Meru series (2017) by trying to redefine
Hindu cosmology called "Traibhumikatha" which divide the
universe into three: Heaven, Earth and Hell to justify the concept of
goodness and sin, life and after life and karmic law. Most of all, in
Thailand, the metaphysics that shapes social structure and hierarchy
in which the king is at the highest position of the universe.
"Both
works intend to talk about the ability of photography and images to
construct truth and transformation. Whitewash presents the idea of
how images can control the past. This idea has been developed and
finally became Mt. Meru. The function of an image in Mt. Meru is not
only to distort remembrance, but also to control dreams and to
motivate an ultimate desire. The work is based on the reality of
surreal phenomenon in Thailand.”

Angels, from the series Whitewash

Deluminator, for the series Whitewash.

Chosen boys, from the series Whitewash.

Untitled, from the series Whitewash.

Heaven gate, from the series Whitewash.

Untitled, from the series Whitewash.

Children of heaven, from the series Whitewash.

Untitled, from the series Whitewash.

Illuminator, from the series Whitewash.

Trimurti monument, from the series Mt. Meru.

The impossible dream of an Upasaka, from the series Mt. Meru.

The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, from the series Mt. Meru.

The coronation of Brukhonenko's Dog, from the series Mt. Meru.