The understated beauty of nature and how it can bring happiness is being portrayed during "A Practice Of Slowing Down", which is running at Offbeat Box, until Feb 22.
On showcase is a collection of thousands of thin, circular porcelain plates -- stacked or connected -- by Sukanjana Kanjanabatr, an artist with an architectural background, who finds the repetitive process of working with clay and porcelain a simpler way to understand more about herself.
Exploiting the simple shapes and the space they create, coupled with the understanding of the soil structure characteristics before and after calcination, the pieces have tension between simplicity and complexity, opacity, and fragility.
The final works are stunning in their contrasting impressions, including the power that the force on the thin sheet shows when heated at high temperatures.
These time-consuming works are reminiscent of the Japanese aesthetic -- Wabi-sabi. A mindful approach to everyday life, this Zen philosophy is centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
When things are budding or decaying, this is the essence of imperfection and it is seen as more than things in full bloom. The simplicity of nature can be so subtle that it takes a quiet mind and a cultivated eye to notice these sometimes short moments of beauty.
Offbeat Box is on Lat Phrao 21 and opens Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm.
Porcelain work by Sukanjana Kanjanabatr. (Photo: facebook.com/OBBThai)
Call 082-612-0672.
