Pannaphan Yodmanee is a Thai artist who graduated with MFA and BA in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University. She has received multiple prestigious awards, including the Benesse Prize (2016) and UOB Painting of the Year (Thailand) in 2010. Her practice draws on Buddhist philosophy shaped by early exposure to Thai temple mural paintings. In 2025, she participated in the UOB–NAFA Residency Programme in Paris, where she encountered an environment of freedom and openness that contrasted with her Eastern upbringing. This experience prompted her to explore the possibility of seeking true balance across the divides of gender, race, religion and culture.

Double Blue Moon reinterprets ancient Buddhist cosmology through the lens of astronomy, drawing inspiration from the 14th-century Thai Buddhist cosmological treatise, Trai Phum Phra Ruang and planetary bodies in space such as the Earth, Moon and stars. The two moons symbolise dualities: faith and reason, past and present, spiritual beliefs and scientific understanding as well as cosmic forces that influence human emotions, ways of life and beliefs. The moons stand as silent witnesses to wars, environmental crises and human fragility, where their reflection is hoped to inspire a more conscious way of being, through balance, renewal and contemplation.