Look How Thai I Can Thai, Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic is a three-hour durational performance staged inside the Gelsy Verna Gallery’s glass case. Within this memorial space—dedicated to Professor Gelsy Verna, whose practice confronted the violences of racial stereotyping—the artist positions their own body as both specimen and protest. Dressed in a cheaply made “Thai” costume, Blue inscribes text onto the glass walls with a marker, layering a poem legible only from the outside. Over the course of the performance, the writing accumulates, collapses, and eventually erases itself into opacity.

The act of writing and overwriting, accompanied by moments of violent pounding against the glass, stages the impossibility of legibility for a Thai immigrant artist inside a white institutional frame. The body, trapped behind glass, is both on display and silenced: visible yet unreadable, ethnic yet flattened into a stereotype. The performance asks what it means to create work as a Thai artist in spaces that commodify “Thainess” while refusing the complexity embedded within it.

The work does not offer resolution. It dwells in the tension of being both hyper-visible and erased, unpacking the artist’s own struggle to articulate identity in a system that demands spectacle but denies depth. Look How Thai I Can Thai, Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic exposes this paradox as unwinnable—yet insists on occupying it as a site of resistance.