Human has created many symbols to separate themselves from nature.
However, in the beginning, the purpose of the symbols was to connect us with nature so as to remind us that there might be so much more than just … Being.
Time after time, we are blinded by what we have been creating. Left the fading trails to tell us from where we came as well as one question “What is it, for our purpose, to nature and does it matter to us still?
Or
Do we only have an obligation to what we believe and worship?”
In this exhibition, I present the scenes where humanity and nature walking through a pathway seemingly to bring us back to the ordinary. How long remain the homo sapiens without the ecosystem holding? Pride and ignorance are endless. Nature is not saddened. Human creates and destroys and vis versa (They can be created and destroyed).
We are controlling but drowning ourselves with power.
We are revolutionists who can’t win the revolution.
We are the winners who can’t keep the victory.
Nature is not saddened
The exhibition of indifferent nature is about the fight of humankind that tries to win the nature of both natural resources and natural disaster. A part of this problem is from humans by wastefully using the resources and form global warming. This endless fight of humankind and nature is like a fight without any feeling. However, the environment changes according to the impact of natural deterioration.
Wood engraving artist, Kao Chisanupol, used the agreement relating to Gods, myths, religions, and fable to communicate and to represent power and the real force of nature through woodcut art reflecting the viewpoint of the artist to that gods to be just a conceptual invention of humans. People might forget “What Is The Real God?” and “What Is Important to Human Existence?”. This is to urge society to realise that the real god might not be what we believe according to the religions but the real god is actually just nature.
From knowledge into the piece of art
I learn about nature by reading and direct experience and my learning obsession have brought opportunities to work in the conservation field and share my experience and present them through art.
In my work, I utilised wood engraving technique. It is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.
Right: a part of piece mould made from Resin
After I have chances to go back and forth into the forest, I realised the importance of both the city and the forest. We need resources from nature which always sustains us and grow us but unfortunately, we have been failing to take good care of our mother of nature. So I decided to move from the cut wood to resin in order to reduce technique limitation and somehow reduce the use of cut wood.
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”16″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″]Wondering into a forest makes me think about human back in the past. They live their life blindly and their weakness made them believe that there were not the strongest in this ecosystem.
Right: Fungi
Spending time in the forest inspired me stories along with emotions and so I expressed them. I started to sculpture line after line telling stories about the environment through legends and folktales. The combination of stories which most people know in general is presented in different context hoping that those who appreciate would understand what I am trying to tell them.
The 10% of income from this exhibition will be donated to Thailand Hornbill Research Foundation and scholarship for those school in conservation network, Forest Rangers, and Seub Nakhasathien Foundation in 30th Year Anniversary Seub Nakhasathien
The exhibition will take place at Kolwit Studio & Gallery in Bangkok until February 28, 2020. If you are around, please come and visit. More info HERE.
This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media