Exhibition Background : two Minds = one Work two Artists = one Rapport Rapport relates to the unique collaborative process between thaiwijit Puengkasemsomboon and somyot Hananuntasuk, known mainly for their abstract work. Sharing a common interest in vision and inspiration, the artists worked together and experimented with each other's compositions since last year and have continuously been doing so for the exhibition. Rapport aims to explore three components of artistic process shared between the two artists and of their own. It reflects on inter-relational experience, based on the interpretation and re-interpretations of the images produced in the artworks. The first component comprises of their individual works. For Thaiwijt, they are large paintings that were completed when the artist undertook a residency at the Atelier im Paimenhaus in Feldafing, Germany during the fall of 2002. For Somyot, who is based in Munich for more than 30 years, there are his recent paintings produced during the duration of this collaboration. The process for the second component took place during the residency when both artists painted spontaneously on each other's composition in sequence, with each supplementing the previous one. They both equally monopolise the texture and form of their expressions under one canvas. In the end, 8 paintings were completed and the end results reflected a nature in which the artists accept the individuality of each other with openness and shared inspiration. Unlike the previous situation where both worked closely under one studio in Feldafing, the third and final component is a process which both send artworks to each other via airmail to develop and re-develop. The apparent distant create a different spontaneity and possibility in that there is no'comfort zone' where the artists can be in a position to comment immediately before or right after the process has started. The artists went on to work on their received artwork, creating from it a new piece. There is a lot more of the improvised element of 'play' involved. We can witness overlapping of pieces, recycled materials juxtapose with new ones and the final results are in different forms of diptychs, triptychs and multi-layered pieces. Throughout the collaboration, the constant dialogue that passes between the artists evolves naturally, and this merge of identities is transferred to the work. Thus, the exchange here challenges both artist's individual ebb and flow of ideas, which in turn, evokes questions of signature, style and self, which ultimately lead us into the notion of the mutable nature in artistic identity itself.