 According to the 'Europe Grand Tour of Contemporary Art' an article by Julia Chaplin in on May 28, 2007 New York Times the 'Terraced Rice Field Art Project' was written about as following

"...The show - 120 artists from the Congo to Australia - takes an outsider's view of the commercial art world.To keep an element of surprise, Documenta does not reveal the list of artists until the final hour.Among the known participants is Sakarin Krue-On from Thailand, who is creating a Southeast Asian terraced rice field on a hillside outside an 18th-century palace as a large-scale earth-art culture clash..."

2007 was a time when rice planting was not a popular subject and popular activity to be shown in various occasion as in nowaday.