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Blinded by Centuries navigates the evolution of consciousness in a speculative ??post-human landscape. A generation adrift, existing between earthly and mythical realms, traces history to imagine a future before transformation. Inspired by short-format contemporary music videos, it is an auto-fictional retelling of the Buddhist folktale rooted in Southeast Asia called “Phra Ros Meri” (‘Twelve Sisters.’)

Parinda Mai, like many of her generation in Thailand, grew up with the story Twelve Sisters, communicated across platforms, from oral history to soap operas and cartoon animations. The project 12 Kalpas Tales is the artist’s personal search and reinterpretation of the moral of this story and its implications for the interconnected humanity. Blinded by Centuries emerges from this project, and is intended to capture the core energy of this myth that involves invading, exploiting, and destroying something, then leaving it behind to later try to rescue it with one’s ethics. In Blinded by Centuries an esoteric folktale is played out globally in contemporary terms. Project website: https://the12kalpastale.online/