Lamseang Garden (+ Mekong Distorted Soundscape)

When You Travel to Mekong Project, Part of MAEW - Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week

28-30 September 2025, Nakhon Phanom

When You Travel to Mekong invites viewers to embark on a journey into the distortions and fractures within the relationship between humans and nature, presented through a dialogue between photography and sound.

The photographic series Lamseang Garden, by Supawich Weesapen, comprises five images shot on film that intentionally distorts color. Each image is layered with a sheet of green glass, working as a filter, creating a sense of estrangement and detachment from the actual atmosphere. The series portrays lamseang trees caught in a half-alive, half-dead state amidst a twisted, distorted landscape. Their relationship with the Mekong River is rendered “othered” through the irregular rhythm of rising and falling waters. In parallel, the work invites viewers to question human notions of beauty often bound to the constructed definition of “nature,” which overlays what lies before us, while also exploring the conflicted emotions we hold toward the green color.

Complementing this is the sound series Mekong Distorted Soundscape, created by Krai Sridee, Yuki Suwansopa, Anaparn, and Manunya. Built from authentic sound recordings collected along the Mekong River, the work blends, distorts, and transforms these soundscapes under the concept of “listening to the distorted soundscape of the Mekong.” What emerges is a new sound space, one no longer resembling the natural environment we are familiar with. These sounds are traces of a fractured relationship between humans, nature, development, dam construction, and the violence of power that have permanently altered the Mekong River landscape.
Together, the photographs and sounds reveal another side of truth: that the relationship between humans and nature has already disintegrated and changed. 
 

This project is coordinated by Reverberation Area 

Commissioned by MAEW

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