Rattapon Pirat

I never truly begin with a blank surface.
Even empty paper carries something:
old marks, raw fibers, the memory of a gesture I haven’t made yet.
I let these remnants stay.
They are part of the conversation.

My process moves in many states at once—
searching and listening, planning and drifting,
certainty crossing paths with hesitation.
I follow color into color, line into form,
not because I know where it leads,
but because the next step only appears in the moment I take it.

I work with what remains and what arrives,
with traces that feel honest,
with accidents that feel more truthful
than anything I could decide beforehand.
Sometimes I cover everything;
sometimes I leave the beginning exposed
so the past can breathe inside the present.

I don’t paint to resolve things.
I paint to stay inside the shifting—
where intuition forms before language,
where thought hasn’t yet become a sentence,
where the unfinished is allowed to remain unfinished.

Each piece is a layering of moments:
a record of attention changing shape,
a meeting between what I carried in
and what the work asked from me.
The result is not a final answer,
but the trace of having been here,
moving, feeling, questioning, becoming.

Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna

2001 - Exhibition of Mini Prints, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2002 - RIT Art Exhibition, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Art Thesis 2004 , Chiang Mai University Art Museum

Art Competition 2004 Toshiba 16th "Brings Good Things To Life", The National Gallery, Bangkok