





For BAB 2022, Moonmanas presents Dreams of Ayutthaya, 2022 in BAB Virtual Venue. His inspiration is Prophetic Lament for Si Ayutthaya written by an anonymous poet in about 17 century. This poem with a mysterious origin prophesized the fall of Krung Si Ayutthaya, the glorious center of Siam, saying that it would face 16 major disasters by referencing Lord Buddha’s prophesy. Moonmanas is interested in the imagery of chaos which might be related to both political unrest at the time and contemporary Thai political context. He then creates an image of the fall of Krung Si Ayutthaya from historical evidences and memory of this city. He also uses imagery from his previous work in which he used AI in resynthesizing and reediting the literature Tri Phum Phra Ruang, the foundation of traditional Thai cosmology. In addition, he includes AI-generated images in this work. The outcome is like contemplation and redrafting of dream-like blurring memories from remnants of both past and future imageries, realistic narratives and fiction-like ones.
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