Beer can art is – understandably – an undervalued and much abused art form (with apologies to the sublime Jasper Johns). But, before today, it had never occurred to me that it was universal, much less potentially sublime, and even poignant.
Below, the only known (to me) example of a Thai beer can wind chime. I note only that it hangs over the doorway to an open aluminum furnace that workers approach without safety equipment, or respiratory protection. The smelter is the very definition of industrial misery, and yet somebody took the time to cut, assemble, and hang these chimes.
Located roughly an hour outside of Bangkok, in an industrial park in Chonburi.