Influenced by Structuralism and the notion of life’s path being pre-ordained, this early piece was made in parallel with the themes of education and marginalisation developed during the early 1990’s while Navin Rawanchaikul was still a student. Marking the Bangkok debut for a group of five young artists from Chiang Mai, the work comprised 10 steel plates shaped as a large opened book. Hung in two rows with five pages along each, across the plates was scrawled illegible text mixed with human’s hair. Positioned along bottom edge of the top row of plates was a series of melancholic photographic images of handcuffed hands while the centre of the bottom row of plates ran with a series of hanging feet. From a distance it appears as though figures are imprisoned within a jail-like book.