Comments from Our Guestbook in Bangkok, 5th Feb - 6th Mar 2010

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Shoutouts - Artgazine

Shoutouts on-line in Artgazine (Click on this link)This video was shown as part of our exhibition at The Art Centre, of our one day workshop with Thai artists and art students.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Border Crossing Workshop in Bangkok

The inaugural workshop was held at The Art Center, 7th Floor, Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, on the first of February. Students and invited artists brought along an artwork which was selected at random to pass to another student or artist who painted or drew on top of it. It was a great success; the participants enjoyed the workshop and responded well to the challenge, and some great works were produced. All the works are documented, and all the documentation and a selection of the works will be shown in Australia in September.

Here are some photos of the workshop.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Day 14 - God in Bangkok - Amazing!

The Grand Palace - Bangkok

Bangkok Traffic Jam (Rot tet)

I finished filming my video for my exhibition in Ban Pao, so I took the 7 hour bus journey back to Bangkok. The bus arrived at the inconvenient time of 2.10am. When I got off the bus, the man who'd been sitting next to me offered to share a taxi with me. He said he was travelling to a similar area. In the taxi, we realised that we were going to the same lane (Pridi) off the same side road (Soi) off a major road. Amazing! Bangkok is a city of an estimated 12 million people and we were going to the same small street. There are at least 107 side streets (Soi's) off Sukhumvit Road (Thanon Sukhumvit) which is a highway 400km's long and we were going to the same lane off the same Soi! Some people call this co-incidence, I know it's God. I prayed earlier in the day and God answered my prayer but not in the way I expected. In predominantly Buddhist Thailand, God was in action.

There's even a wiki entry about the road if you want to find out more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumvit_Road

Check out tomorrow's post to see some of my paintings,
Wendy

Day 13 - Art in Bangkok (Krung Thep)

Red Face by Somchai Wacharasombat

Yellow Face by Somchai Wacharasombat

Embroidery a Space - Gi -ok Jeon

Mindscape 6 (embroidery and chinese ink) - Gi- ok Jeon

Two of the exhibitions I visited in Bangkok are at Jamjuree Gallery (where I will have my solo show next Feb). I've included a few pictures by a Thai artist and a Korean artist living in Bangkok. Cheers,
Wendy