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"In this new series of portraits filled with lush flora and fauna Tapaya signals an intellectual turn to the ecocentric, spotlighting nature as the primary actor in the folklore that fuels his artistic imagination. The composition recalls a peculiar Southeast Asian artifact: Wat Mahathat's Buddha head that emerges from tree roots in Ayutthaya. Art historian Gregory Levine discusses this Buddha head to challenge our appreciation of art amidst the Anthropocene. Understood as the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the …