Notes from the farm
I have never experienced being part of this kind of a project. I have gained a lot from other participants and their way of thinking. I would like to make a work and add this knowledge to it – create a cloth where each participant’s presence will be in the piece.
I am proud and happy that everyone comes here from different places to participate on this land. My life changed when I came here. This land, I feel, is ancient and it was fated that I be here. We are all here too, because it is meant to be. It is because of the land; we are related to the land.
This land can educate people.
There is 20 rai back there that I want to keep as it is, do not want to cultivate – it’s always been like this, where also fruit trees are growing naturally in the wild. I want to preserve this. When something troubles me, or I have something to think about and resolve I walk in this place and it always helps me find a way.
I don’t think I do anything great – part of it is just to enjoy myself. Other people may not recognize or relate to what is going on. But I am enjoying something that other people cannot see.
People say that there is something mysterious here, something that cannot be explained. I have never felt scared or unsafe, or that there is any danger. And those people who come here and feel the same way, I can well understand them. I think that the ‘something mysterious’ does not mean to harm but means well to all who come and stay here. Please feel you are part of the land.
Pan Parahom (Mae Pan) [This post comprises screengrabs and downloaded images from the Womanifesto Archive , focusing on the work of 2008 Womanifesto Residency Artist Pan Parahom. Click on any of the images to be directed to their source. To read an overview of Womanifesto, an international art exchange program based in Thailand, see Bo Choy’s ‘Womanifesto’ in Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public here housed by the Asia Art Archive ].
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