THAIWIJIT
BANGKOK MAY 31st, 2000

WHEN I WAS A CHILD IT WAS BLISS TO BE ABLE TO WATCH PUFFS OF CLOUDS FLOATING IN THE SKY. AS THEY FLOWED THEY WOULD BREAK UP AND THEN RE-GROUP INTO DIFFERENT KINDS OF SHAPES. UNFAMILIAR YET DEFINITE IN THEIR FORMS, THEIR RHYTHM STRUCK MY EYES DIFFERENTLY EVERY TIME THUS CREATING MANY NEW FEELINGS IN ME.

SOMETIMES THESE FORMS LOOKED LIKE ORGANISMS EVOLVING THROUGH STAGES OF TIME, OR THEY FLOATED AWAY LIKE ANIMALS ON THE MOVE; SOMETIMES THEY WERE UNDEFINED AND ENORMOUS AND SEEMED TO ME AS IF THEY ENCLOSED SOME HIDDEN POWERS. SOMETIMES THIS PROCESS OF DISTORTION WAS OVERWHELMING FOR MY YOUNG MIND. YET AT OTHER TIMES THE FEELINGS WERE SUBDUED AND CALM. EXPERIENCING SUCH CHILDHOOD INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE OBSERVATION OF MULTITUDE CLOUD FORMATIONS, THE PHENOMENON SATURATED MY IMAGINATION WITH NEW VISIONS OF COLOURS AND FORMS.

AS MY BODY GREW PHYSICALLY, MY MIND DEVELOPED DUE TO ALL THE INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE I WAS ACQUIRING THROUGH EDUCATION, MUCH OF WHICH, I THOUGHT HOWEVER, COULD CONFINE MY "SPATIAL" DREAMS. THE PURE AND ENTHUSIASTIC IMAGINATION OF A YOUNG MIND COULD BE DILUTED BY GROWING UP ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF AN EDUCATED SOCIETY - SOMETIMES I FEARED THAT DAY-BY-DAY THE FORCES OF CREATIVITY COULD BECOME LESS AND LESS ABLE TO DRIVE MY IMAGINATION BEYOND IT'S HORIZON AS BEFORE.

MY CREATIVE IDEAS AND DREAMS HAVE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THEN AND IN RECENT YEARS MEDITATION HAS HELPED ME TRANSLATE MY VISION INTO OBJECTS. SELECTING, COMBINING AND ASSEMBLING FOUND AND USED OBJECTS - THEREBY CREATING A NEW OBJECT WITH IT'S OWN IDENTITY, BOTH FUNCTIONAL AND VISUAL - IS THE RESULT OF MY CHILDHOOD IMPRESSIONS FROM OBSERVING THE ORGANIC FORMS OF CLOUDS MOVING ACROSS THE SKY.