Discovering myself through the mask that I wear is quite an interesting journey. Color used is based onthe color of the day in Thai tradition to convey my heritage. I think I don’t really understand myself clearly at any particularmoment, until I revisit the situation again. Then it is like waking up either from a good or bad dream.

That project was an exploration of myself through the masks that I wear throughout the day, a study in code-switching. It was quite an interesting journey. The colors used are based on the colors associated with the week in Thai tradition to convey my heritage. I think I don’t really understand myself clearly at any given moment, until I revisit the situation again. Then it feels like waking up from a dream, but whether that dream is good or bad depends upon how that realization about myself makes me feel.

The first image is a charcoal picture I drew representing my many faces and colored in photoshop. I then uploaded that image to Midjourney and told it to reference my style and content to create more images based on the original artwork. I wanted a version where there was no face, where instead of faces clustered like in my original art, the faces are taken off, revealing the faceless template beneath. That is what I instructed Midjourney to generate, with various different poses to make it distinct from my original artwork. 

This installation expands on the Japanese proverb that speaks of the three faces each person carries: the face shown to the world, the face reserved for loved ones, and the face never revealed to anyone. During the period in which this work was conceived, I felt myself shifting constantly between personas—adapting, editing, and reshaping my identity depending on the context. Rather than illustrating this idea through a single image, I chose to translate it into a spatial experience.

The piece reimagines the proverb through a system of eighteen sculpted heads, each one repainted, restyled, and customized to embody a distinct persona. Variations in skin tone, hair, and expression create a spectrum of identities that my central character could “try on,” reflecting the many roles I felt compelled to perform. These heads are arranged on a structured display, functioning as both a storage system and a stage—an environment where identities are selected, worn, and set aside.

The surrounding room becomes an extension of this psychological landscape. A poem I wrote, expressing my frustration, fragmentation, and search for a stable sense of self, is printed across the walls and floor. By embedding the text directly into the architecture, the installation immerses the viewer in the internal monologue that shaped the work. The result is a spatial narrative: a designed environment that externalizes the fluidity, exhaustion, and multiplicity of selfhood.