work: 2009

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Overall concept: “You, Him, Me and Her

all concept: “You, Him, Me and Her”

This set of work was created in 2008 which is my last academic year in university. Then, I usually had opinions regarding thoughts and techniques to create a work different from those of my teacher. That gave me a question: Why are we different? When I looked back, I started to realize that the reason why we are different is we have different past and present, meaning every perception and surrounding has been different. So I wanted to create a space where my past and present can be exchanged with those of other people.

Title: You, Him, Me and Her(Past)

Dimension: 200 x 200 x 150 cm.

Technique: Wood, zinc, stereo set, free
comic books, pillows, a linoleum, a cabinet, a light bulb

Title: You, Him, Me and Her(Present)

Dimension: 2.00 x 2.00 x 2.00 m.
(portable)

Technique: Mosquito net cloth, rain screen cloth, a carpet, appliances and utensils I bought from the camp site

You, Him, Me and Her(Past) 2008

Concept: “You, Him, Me and Her(Past)”

This work tells the story of my past and some of my past strangeness in which I used to love making a house under the stairs. That house is the place where I used to read comic books, listen to some music, eat and sleep. I spent so much time in it that it sometimes seemed like the actual house looked like a big society.
In this work, there is a room under the stairs where anyone can go and sit, relax, listen to some music and read free comic books. In those comics, there are stories from my past and some blank pages for spectators to record their own stories.

You, Him, Me and Her(Past) 2008

Sunday, March 22, 2009

You, Him, Me and Her(Present)

Concept: “You, Him, Me and Her(Present)”

This is similar to the previous one. I have put my present stories into the work. However, the scene has moved from the room under the stairs to inside the mosquito net which is the place I sleep when I have grown up. This work is also a metaphor of the present living place but the “present” time of the creation of this work is now a past.
So I need to tell you something about my life back then. Back then, I stayed in the university which is very far from my home. So my sleeping place had to be moved to dormitories I rented, my friends’ houses or the university. It seemed that I had no place to live. Everywhere seemed like only a place to sleep at night and leave in the morning. That made me think of the mosquito net that is used to cover myself during my sleep at night and the tent that can be used to sleep in outdoors. I, then, mixed these two things together and arranged appliance and utensils in order in the place where I exhibit this work in order to show the change of place and time in the “present” of the work.

You,Him,Me and Her (Present) 2008

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Termite at Nospace Gallery

Title: Termite

Dimension: Variable

Technique: Wood and playing music while sculpting

Concept:

I started this work in 2007 when I was in my junior year. Back then, I was so fond of sculpting wood that I looked for fallen trees everywhere I went. Sometimes I found normal, upstanding trees and I asked a gardener to cut them down. I could not stand seeing big trees. I needed to cut it down. So, I became a wood addict. The following year, some of my carved wood started to be eaten by termites and trees in the university were becoming so rare that I started to look at my own belongings. Then, I realized how many pieces of wood I had carved and how similar I was to termites, which eat wood. I am similar to the termites in that they destroy wood in order to live while I destroy it to create. These two things went on together and ended up living in the 2008 “Termite” exhibition, which is an exhibition showing how to carve and sculpt wood accompanied by MorLum (E-san singing and dancing style), Thai North-eastern local music. The music is played while I carve wood with microphones inside to make it sound like the wood is singing when it actually is being destroyed.