Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew

When I saw this guy's work I felt an exciting resonance.  His work incorporates the essence of impermanence.  His beautiful ethereal mixed media paintings are inspired by Buddhism philosophy, birth, aging, sickness and death. 

http://lowegallery.com/artists/uttaporn-nimmalaikaew/bio.htm

http://beautifuldecay.com/2015/01/28/uttaporn-nimmalaikaews-ethereal-paintings-mosquito-nets-shimmer-mid-air/
Not only does this resonate with my own spiritual beliefs but my thoughts and intentions, mostly in terms of sculpture have been to indicate the figure in a less solid way.  I have been thinking about the transient nature of life and the figure and what science tells us about our sense of reality, in that nothing is really solid or material.  I love the idea of layers, layers of time and existence.

I did wonder why it seemed that my painting subject and sculpture ideas seemed very different from each other.  But then it occurred to me that in fact they are all part of the same theme and idea.  In my painting I am focusing on the material facade.  The system that is imposed on us, the consumer focused society.  This is in contrast to what I believe to be the real nature of life, and therefore, maybe it's the need in me to focus on the system that we are conditioned to believe and be part of as a way of pointing out the illusion.