Temporal Layers of Insight

My series reflects on perception, time, and the changing sense of belief. Across 4 works, I express a visual dialogue between spirituality, material culture and individual perspective. Each piece echoes a layer of human awareness from origin to self-recognition.

I. Origin

The first work reveals a faint illusion of Amitābha Buddha, hidden beneath a hazy white surface crossed by chaotic intersecting lines. The figure seems to fade in and out of sight as if emerging through layers of memory. This ambiguity invites the viewer to slow down, to search beyond the surface and to sense how the sacred can exist quietly within obscurity. Origin becomes not an image to be recognized, but a moment of perception — where seeing turns into contemplation.

II. Enlightenment

Here, the symbolic form emerges in clarity: a horizontal linear composition dividing sky and earth. The lower section - rendered through glass material reminiscent of floating water - evokes the Fertility and Prosperity essence of Oriental cosmology.

The center rests a tiny Ayutthaya-period Buddha figure, anchoring the composition with quiet reverence. The expressionist brushed traces convey emotional intensity while fragments of typography from the artist’s own thesis on folk belief form a subtle textual ground. Together, they merge spiritual contemplation with historical research - turning enlightenment into both a visual and intellectual awakening.

III. Continuum

This work transitions into more of contemporary. Two distorted aluminum cans - remnants of mass consumption - are reimagined as abstract forms - resembling relics of the present era. Within one of them lies a tiny Theravada Buddha figure with the seven-headed Naga behind, subtly hidden at the center. The recycled material suggests continuity rather than rupture, a cycle where belief and identity adapt to the pressures of modernity. The transparent pixelated background speaks both of decay and renewal reflecting how the religious belief endures amid transformation.

IV. Perspective

The final work introduces a solitary Lego minifigure standing atop a fragment of charcoal, encircled by spirals of rice. The minimal installation transforms everyday materials into a cosmological metaphor — the human self situated upon the inherited foundation of culture and land, surrounded by rice as the life force of Asia. It is a quiet contemplation on how perspective defines existence: the individual as both witness and participant within an unending cycle of time.