Revisiting an earlier artwork, Sam Sun (GMT+7), in its 2025 version through an alternative approach to techniques and methodologies. It constructs the perception of light manifested across three dimensions: the use of color to create light within the painting, the interplay of actual light and shadow upon the thick impasto surface, and the emergence of traces from an intense light source on a plastic surface like Mylar film.

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          Separated by over 3,000 kilometers from Bangkok to Yogyakarta, we stand upon the same reality, under the same time zone. Yet, you and I can never watch the sun set simultaneously, because our time is never truly equal in reality. This gap is widened to expose the fragility of what humans attempt to construct and the meanings we assign to time.

        The existence of reality—defined through human meaning-making on the plane of dividing space into time zones between Bangkok and Yogyakarta—is inherently fragile. Perception through light, which constructs human reality and the things we define, remains an ambiguity that is difficult to fully comprehend. These gaps create a space that breaks free from conventional systems of temporal and luminous perception, presented through paintings of sunsets that differ by one hour, despite both cities sharing the exact same numerical time on the clock. The fragility of the meanings humans attempt to classify and categorize—the reality occurring in nature—clearly projects as an expression of melancholic longing for the days gone by. It is simultaneously an act of submission to, and resistance against, existing under a constructed system of reality.