The altered landscape is the most visibly apparent element. The familiar image of the sea as a vast, empty expanse stretching to the horizon is what it’s supposed to be. However, the sea in Rayong province, Thailand  reveals something else —there is a bridge extending all the way to the horizon, and at the end of it, an enormous smokestack rises out of the sea.

 

Emergence of industrial factories is part of the development of infrastructure to support a large-scale society that constantly demands conveniences—needs that seem likely to keep increasing. In exchange, the environment around these industrial areas becomes contaminated, whether intentionally or by accident.

 

Photo series SOMETHING IN EVERYTHING is an experimental work and a real-site exploration in Rayong province. The images were captured on film, and experimented with a technique called “film soup.”

 

The liquid used to soup the film was a water sample taken from the wastewater pipe of a factory in tessaban mueang Map Ta Phut, water from the wastewater treatment pond of the Win Process co.,ltd after the industrial waste fire leaked, soil from a rubber plantation where toxic waste leaked from a factory had been buried, and the ash left from burned chemical containers.

 

During the experiment, most of the negatives film were marked by chemical stains that ate into the film's surface, some rolls faded away, some parts remain only as fragments of a place. As a result, the film seemed to reveal the presence of pollution more clearly than the places themselves, making every image appear as though it had been contaminated by something invisible in real life.