GMU:Introduction to Microscopy/Mon Sisu Satrawaha

INTO THE JOURNEY OF MICROBES

WEEK 1

I must admit that this scientific world is rather new for me, during the first week of study, I still had no idea of what could I do with microscope. I took it as another tool for my practices, to work as another camera to be precise, or I will try to use any biology documentation way in film method.

While I was walking to the lab, I saw a molded tree bark with blue, orange, green color. I found that it's visually compelling, so I brought it to the lab...

In this small piece of bark, I can see small living things crawling around...from a person with no experience in biology like me, that's fascinating.

WEEK 2

Although, I was impressed by what I saw at the lab, but I was still not quite sure what to work with micro-world. Should I experiment on the apparatus or should I explore about microorganism.

It took me sometimes to narrow down my interest...what could I talk when I talk about microscopy... I looked back to myself, and all around me, politics and cultural studies are always the big part for my work. When I went a bit deeper to the situation of people coming out to the street calling to reform the institution in Thailand. Instead of saying his majesty, we've been taught to refer to the king as "dust beneath your feet" which basically means to him -- we are not so different or even have lower value than dust under his feet.

Apart from metaphorical speaking between dust and hierarchy, Thailand also suffers from PM2.5 pollution problem due to lots of construction, building new city under government's policy. [1]

My short film "PM2.5" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7a4sEw8GVE

Dust has so many cultural values behind it, it's all around us but we tend to forget, and it has become houses for so many microlives. [2] [3]