The Creation of Story-telling Art Work of the Tale of Mr.Thongdee and a Man with Two Kettles

Abstract

Stories of human beings trigger the thinking, questioning and construction to the status as human beings in the environs of materialism. What kind of thinking have such stories trigger, what feelings they cause towards the way of life that has been changed under the flow of the changing culture, and the advancement of technologies and remote communication? Collateral effects caused from radical development in various dimensions have led to the destruction of cultural roots, the abandonment of ethnicity, and the loss of domestic wisdoms, love for motherland, visions and ways of thinking that have been passed on from ancestors for a long period of time. All the aforementioned phenomena are consequences of material development that has been ahead of people (and thus has dominated people). In this project, I, the Author, have studied on changes in all the aforementioned matters throughout the life in order to understand the natures and statuses of changes.

Pati Thongdee and I, two friends with different ages, have had many conversations, with music played along. The more conversations we have had the closer our relationship is. It is the close and flowing relationship between an upstream person and a downstream person, each of which play his own roles and supports each other in order to tell the stories of forest, water and motherland that give to people who live on highlands and plains lives and food.

The work in this project is created by the team of no less than 30 members who are sculptors, painters, writers, story tellers and even the governor of Kalayaniwatthana District who facilitates the transportation of 5 cubic meters of laterite to Rampoeng Kraboksiangsathan in order to create the environs to be in accordance with the needs of the artists. All the components work together to tell the story of people and fertility of forest through art works.

Not only does the dissemination of the work in this project aim at the attainment of new meanings of aestheticism but it also, in my opinion and belief, urges audiences, with key story and contents of this art works, to question the life, society and things, with the emphasis on the key principles of arts. As for the presentation of the works in this project, I use some of my highlighted works in the past 5 years as the complements that show the process of creation in terms of patterns, techniques, concepts, and attitudes and beliefs concerning the creation of my works in order to reflect the dispositions and objectives of the creation of the works.