The Garden of God, Chapter 6 : Fire Lion Painting

‘The Garden of God’ Since the ancient time, human beings have been living and developing their living patterns for survival from generation to generation until the living instinct has been developed with the awareness of death being the main drive of human beings in all eras up to the present. This awareness of death had developed physical attributes of fear until ancient religions and rites were developed in order to reflect the beliefs in after death lives. Art works in the eastern and western worlds reflect stories of after death world that are abstracts through the artists’ imaginations in several fashions. One interesting point is that such artists have ideas about after death world that are similar to one another in term of the zoning of the land of the dead into several levels. Such levels manifest the actions of the dead when they are alive. Even at present, the imaginations on after death land or after life land have been produced over and over again through the symbols of human beings’ internal spirits that are reflected through different forms that artists reflect as stories of human beings that are comprised with diversified emotions and feelings, and the opposite sides of negativity and positivity in an individual. The ‘Garden of God’ Art Exhibition by Artists Kriangkrai Kongkhanan presents the imaginations on the garden in a secret land that is the center of goods that human beings worship as symbols of prosperity, stability, happiness and success in life. The artist uses the stories of such gods that have been existing for a long period of time as religious beliefs as the components for surveying on human feelings that are endless needs which originate greed and wants until they build lust that drives all human beings to take all actions. Images of such gods and auspicious symbols represent certain needs in human minds, which form emotions. Such auspicious symbols are religious beliefs and have been worshiped for longer than a century. Therefore, the Garden of God is one of the artist’s imaginations on the garden in a mysterious land where a variety of gods that symbolize auspiciousness or goodness gather together. However, this garden hides the lust and wants of human beings like the images of hell that is the place for dark spirits of human beings, which are reflected through the deformed shapes as seen in the artist’s works in the ‘Spiritual Disease’ Set that surveys on dark side in all human beings’ minds, serving as mirrors that reflect the true images of human beings that are different from beautiful ones. When human beings can overcome the fear that has existed in the past by defining, giving meanings and developing the shapes of the fear in their imaginations, their needs change from the attempt to live to the wants for good life. Such wants lead to the development of forms and images of gods who grant wishes to everyone worshipping them. Not only do stories of gods that are in the ‘Garden of God’ Art Exhibition by Kriangkrai Kongkhanan demonstrate overwhelming lust in all human beings but they are also linked to other stories of human needs that have been told for a long period of time through the images of different auspicious symbols such as a Pi Xiu that symbolizes prosperity and wealth for Chinese people, a Garuda that symbolizes immortality and strength. Put together, these symbols demonstrate the corrupted minds of human beings that are caused for needs and wants, in a space, which is like the image of hell in people’s minds.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 32 H x 1.5 D in

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