In this project the curator assembles objects shaped by the neighbourhood’s ingenuity - flattened tires tied with plastic string from a motorcycle repair shop on Santhipap Road, rounded acrylic sheets echoing the sign-making workshops near the July 22nd Roundabout, and humble domestic fragments reconfigured into makeshift still lifes. In their original contexts, these objects quietly organise space and support the rhythms of daily life. Within the gallery, however, they invite new ways of reading the city, tracing stories of use, resourcefulness, and the shared creativity that emerges from ordinary hands.

“To me, these objects represent a dialect,” Mark notes. “Each material forms a ‘word,’ and each method of construction becomes a kind of ‘grammar.’ The resulting forms are like fragmented ‘phrases.’ When brought together through the perspective of a curator with an artist’s instinct, these utterances begin to form coherent ‘sentences’ and ‘paragraphs.’ A codified language emerges - a vernacular of Yaowarat. It manifests not as rigid prose, but as loose poetic expressions, like physical haikus.”

Rather than glorifying their humble origins, “Vernacular Objects” invites visitors to pause and look again - to recognise how a neighbourhood expresses itself not only through architecture or heritage, but through the small, improvised structures shaped by necessity and care. Together, these gestures form a gentle visual grammar, a local dialect written in material, form, and the everyday choreography of Yaowarat life.