Dwelling Elsewhere

It tells the story of a journey toward a new land,using sleep as both subject and medium of creation to explore the state of being human in moments of trance, weak, harmless, suspended between awareness and surrender. It shifts from the position of a maker or a destroyer to that of a vessel that holds the subconscious. Living alone in different countries is something I believe makes me stronger. Leaving Thailand was away of escaping from reality.

One month in New York, three weeks in northern Italy, and sixteen years of childhood in Nakhon Ratchasima these three places became resting points of a life in motion. New York is the dream of a seeker beginning again Italy, the repeated rhythm of workers traveling to survive and Nakhon Ratchasima, the root of those who left and the traces that remain. These routes overlap in the shared landscape of sleep and dream, where people are constantly on the move.The stories of migration that once took place in history are explored through abandoned houses and deserted buildings the traces of lives once lived. Imagination built from spoken memories and the remnants left behind is the most fun part of my process. They are told through paintings that serve as windows in themselves, investigating contemporary cultures of memory a negotiation between what remains and what fades. Sleep is an escape into the other side of reality.

I do not expect this series to tell stories truthfully, but only to express the emotions of those who continue to struggle to live amid uncertainty, within a failing state. Sleep becomes a quiet form of resistance a question without sound, addressed to those in power and the consequences that fall upon the small, fragile lives called citizens. At the same time, it is a consolation through time itself even when sorrow still lingers with us, morning will come, and light will find its way in once again. Dwelling Elsewhere explores sleep as a geography of migration a liminal space between memory and displacement.