Numinous Objects

 

This series of works based on my interest in how the ordinary object transforms into a sacred one in the church or temple as opposed to how artists alchemically transform ordinary material into art. I was also interested in the idea of inner voice within artists that drive them to portray certain sort of works as a shaman bringing back images from the world beyond. This body of work investigates the ideas between myth, spirituality, absurdity, the subconscious, chance, and to alchemy and shamanism.

 

Therefore I created objects, which investigated these aspects from different angles and mediums; some of them were in the form of instruction, some in sculpture and installation. These objects celebrated the wide range of objects in the holy space. At the same time they have the element of absurdity, surrealist and manipulation, which are quite common in Thai folk tradition and culture.

 

The idea of sacredness, transformation and alchemy also expanded from within objects to the space around, a transition between the staircase and storage room, by a relationship between each object and the objects per se.