Thong Yod (ทองหยอด)

1. Thai. ‘Golden Drops’. Name of a kind of traditional kanom thai-style candy made with egg yolk that is blended with rice flour and boiled in a syrup. The orangey egg dough is oozed slowly in the syrup from a spoon, little by little, allowing it form pear-shaped balls that look like golden droplets (fig.), hence the name. Also referred to as kanom thong yod. 回

2. Thai. ‘Golden Drops’. Name of a work of art by Arin Roongjaeng (อริญชย์ รุ่งแจ้ง), inspired by the traditional Thai candy kanom thong yod (fig.). It consists of a gigantic golden sphere with a diameter of four metres which is made up entirely of over 6,000 brass drops hung from the ceiling on thin nylon fishing line wires. It was originally displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and two such spheres now hang in Icon Siam (fig.) in Bangkok. The patterns of the blank spaces in between the designs formed by the strings of consecutive brass drops changes as one moves position and thus the viewing angle in relation to the sphere, making it an ever fascinating object to observe over and over again. It is reminiscent of Kinetic Rain, a dynamic art sculpture (fig.) at Singapore's Changi Airport. 回