Rice Husk in the Brick (2025)

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The series Rice Husk in the Brick is inspired by the traces of rice husks found in ancient Mon-style bricks. Sutthang reflects on how these enduring bricks quietly preserve layered histories, including the ingenuity of early communities and the clues that rice husks provide for dating archaeological sites and identifying periods of restoration.

 

Today, as small-scale Mon brick kilns close and traditional knowledge fades, Sutthang recreates the wooden moulds once used for Mon bricks and presents images documenting the brick-making process, the slow burning of rice husks, and the marks found on bricks from Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat and other historic sites in Suphan Buri. Together, these elements speak to both persistence and disappearance—revealing how meanings accumulate within heritage sites and even within a single brick.