Khwanchira Nual Chindamanee

Impermanence and transformation are the inevitable life forces that guide and inspire me.

Impermanence is the cycle of existence from birth to aging to death. Birth occurs when a being is realized. Aging comes with the passage of time and the inevitable decrepitude of the birthed form. Death results in the body’s decomposition. The corporeal body which once was transformed into new and varied forms of life. My understanding of the continual cycle of transformation is rooted in my Southeast Asian childhood. The Thai traditional way of life I grew up in is the foundation of my body and soul, both my material physical and ethereal spiritual self. My work has been inspired by hup taem murals. Hup taem (roughly meaning “painted picture”) is a vanishing style of temple mural found in the Isan of northeast Thailand. Largely gone now, the remaining murals are at the end of their life cycle.