At River City Bangkok, a new exhibition invites visitors into someone else's headspace — literally. "Behind My Eyes", a solo show by Thai-Japanese artist Hiroka Limviphuvadh, transforms the images she sees during meditation into a series of dreamlike paintings now on display in the city.

Hiroka's route to painting was anything but direct. She studied general management at Assumption University, later earning a master's in design research from Kobe Design University in Japan, and in 2014 launched LV, a fashion brand aimed mainly at Japanese customers. Drawing started out as a way to relax from running the label — she only allowed herself to pick up a pencil once she was older and could focus purely on it, without expectations.

The images themselves began early. Hiroka started meditating at around seven, after her family moved from Japan to Thailand. Unable to speak the language and without friends, she found stillness in art class and Buddhist meditation studies. She initially assumed everyone saw visions during meditation, and kept the experience to herself until she discovered other practitioners who saw them too. Over the past couple of years she began sketching what she saw just before falling asleep or while meditating, and those sketches became the core of the show.

Standout works include "Show Of Light", where showers of light scatter like rain around a long-haired woman lying under a transparent blue dome, and "Frequency", in which the same woman zooms in from the side — a title inspired by brainwaves and deep relaxation. "Wave" began as an abstract blue form until Hiroka realised it resembled a cat's eye. There's also a giant cat titled "The Cat In As Above, So Below", which she describes as a guardian spirit; her own cats apparently inspired several pieces, and she jokes they're her guardians too, able to sit and stare like the painted cat. None of the creatures are real animals — they represent life forms in another dimension of her mind.

There's a travel-friendly thread here as well. Hiroka illustrated two internationally recognised award-winning books, "Cast Never Similar" and "The Owl That Never Flew", both exhibited at Bangkok venues. Fashion also appears in the show: she's been dressing the long-haired woman in her paintings since she began the series, and plans to release just one clothing collection a year to free up more studio time.

For travellers passing through Bangkok with an interest in contemporary art, this is a low-effort, high-reward stop — River City sits right on the Chao Phraya, easy to combine with a river walk or a temple visit nearby. The show works whether or not you meditate; it's simply a rare chance to see one person's inner visual world rendered in acrylic, complete with guardians, domes and drifting light.