“Beautiful Things (Desires)” is a vertical video featuring scrolling texts alternating with white spheres, slowly moving from bottom to top. The text comprises a diverse range of stories from flakes of memories, thoughts, and knowledge, such as Apichatpong’s nature observation during evening trekking in Mae Rim Forest; the ways Khrua in Khong, a celebrated Siamese painter of the 19th century, utilised perspective to create a realistic impression in his paintings for the first time; and a blind masseur who converted his art tattoo from a Swastika to a dragon, like a petite Naga incarnate. The use of text on a dark background gives an impression of someone trying to fall asleep from middle-of-the-night awakening to a loud bang, only to have random and refracted thoughts punched into their head.

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