Contemporary artists and multi-disciplinary experts were invited to examine the passage of time in the site and the subjective experience of history, and to creatively respond to the layers of time and history that lay dormant within Isara Winitchai Throne Hall And Mukkrasan Hall within the site of the former Front Palace. Tanatchai Bandasak, a contemporary visual artist, produced a 16 mm film that follows the work of a gardener at the National Theatre—a building that was formerly a part of the Front Palace. Viewers watch the gardener’s hands as he purposely cuts the plant seedlings out from the gaps between concrete paving blocks, from one gap to another.
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