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POSSESSION

POSSESSION
Photography, Sculpture, Sound Installation 2024

In this current time when It seems so hard to have your place for various reasons. Economic, conflict, or even political thought. If you find them what you can do is just rent and hopping. Move from place to place just like the spirit wandering around trying to find a place that can be possessed. Feel that you belong to the land, place, city, or country you want to live in. These led to my interest in research about the layers of ownership and human relationship with the lands or places in many forms some physically seen and used as a tool of authority like mapmaking that shows the nation-state border. Title deeds are used to authorize ownership of a place. At the same time in more abstract belief forms like Thai animism and shamanism. People believe " Kwan "(Thai term to call spirit) possessed places or buildings as bodies, as well as sacred and mythic places or land that have a spirit or local god or even an ancestor spirit within them as place owner alongside a resident. These are just some examples of the overlapping layers of ownership, authority, and relationships of people to spirits, lands, and places. After, I explore the prehistoric era Looking into landscapes like sacred and burial places, Monolithic, and Standing stones. They use standing stones as a medium to connect the ancestors whose spirits become a part of the sky and land. Connect and use their power through stone, Create a radius form of stones, and have the settlements around them which they belong to as their ancestors become the land or place themself. With this context and belief in mind, it helps create a ritual in the exhibition space. Transcend yourself as a Kwan (spirit) passes through the border, through the building through all these layers of ownership possessed into the stone, into the tree as the new body takes over, and claims them to become one with the place and land itself.

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