Ni - here

ni here

by ilze mari wessels : a narrative zine of thailand December 2014 - January 2015

THAILAND: is a country with a composition for the queer. There is a love for everything and nothing and a statement to match it all, and there is a flavour of spice that even has time running a temperature.

To tell the story of this place by quick photographs is only good enough for the small square extents of instagram, here/ni, now straight to your eyes from mine, I have to intoxicate the picture for you to smell this place and sweat the heat.

The method of inducing Thailand to the generic and everyday is to exaggerate, to not treat the sewage and to be another seven eleven; i.e repeat repeat repeat. Because this is a fantastical place, where the neon is inbred and the breed is a monotone culture of demonstrative diversity.

I come to Thailand to study the opposite, to discover the occurrences and collect the parallels. By manipulating according to the formula of place, I am able to arrive at acidic sights, the truth of the sweet and fairly ordinary family holiday that happens once a year. ni : means here in Thai

kub baan

go home

wynam

swimming Section of the suburbs Before the signs are filled and the sky is covered A gap negative like the Clock work: we finally shoot to the coast.

Not one person swims Not one person plays We all look at the cesspool boiling like our flesh You have to run early to see the white sand

doo look rot car ma dog

baan house Architects, your heritage is blood line here and the buildings tell me of every other place I am yet to visit I get all the Europe I need when I visit here I get all the cafe, beach and gallery and I go home to Switzerland air Dust and smog on the bus for 2cents Grey instead of stars Its a funny price you pay for convenience and access and internet, zz this post modern milkshake

pai dhun

go walk

1. the best advice

Places: Faketory , photograph from the Bangkok Arts and Cultural centre Rama 9 Park Soi Sridan Sukhumvit road Hua Lumpong Station Hua Hin Drawings,illustrations and paintings by author The money never ran out here/ni, the students found a way to say the that majesty is but a drawing made by children. Long live the King ?

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full

krup khoon ka thank you [lady]