The impermanence of life is linked to the Buddhist concept of annica, as shown in this image of a seated girl looking forward, in the artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew’s mock-holographic repertoire with thin layers of fine netting called tulle. His works explore the notions of birth, ageing and death. He uses family members as models in his works. One’s physicality is an illusion, whatever the good traits physically and in terms of achievements. What is the core identity is related to core values and the actions done. There will be the layers of concealment, the veil of deception, but how one is judged is not how well one dresses or flaunts one’s wealth, but what is being done to help fellow human beings, perhaps little acts of kindness. Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew hit big time when he won the hugely coveted Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2006. His other major awards include the Purchase Prize in the 3rd Bangkok Triennale in 2012, and 1st Prize in the Thai national art exhibition in 2005 and 2009. Apart from in Bangkok, he has held a solo at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris in 2018. He works as an art instructor at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Bangkok, where he studied for his BFA. He completed his MFA at the Silpakorn University.