​time emit, Imagine

2025, Foam blocks, wooden board, instruction booklet, airplane model, acrylic–oil paints

Venue: Udon Thani City Church

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time emit, Imagine explores the relationship between children and the materiality of American bomb packaging from the Vietnam War era, These materials are reassembled to create a space where memory and imagination can interact through play, reconstruction, and the exploration of the potential for these materials and memories to become something else.

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The work is inspired by the artist’s father’s childhood memories, growing up amidst a mixed cultural environment in an American army based province. As children, they often turned foam bomb packaging into boats to float on the river. The foam, once joined to encase bombs, was split into two halves, reflecting a moment of destruction while simultaneously allowing the material to travel toward new, liberated meanings.

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Beneath the shadow of a Phantom airplane model, the work invites children at the Udon Thani City Church, as well as the public, to assemble and create freely from these materials. Packaging that once contained violence is transformed into material that carries childhood memories and playful potential. Small fragments are joined and taken apart again, with a manual that allows participants to reconstruct the bomb casing/the boat in reverse, as if rewinding time. Two wooden planks serve as seats on the foam boat, which, when joined, reveal the notes of the artist’s father’s favorite song, once heard from American soldiers.

 

Part of PARALLEL II: INTERZONE 

18 October - 30 November 2025  

Curation: NOIR ROW ART SPACE with Phiraya Ardwichai

Initiative Project by NOIR ROW ART SPACE