PHAYANCHANA
Wannaroop
WANNAROOP
Concrete Poetry, sometimes referred to as visual poetry, is a form that combines visual art (image) with literature (language) that simultaneously communicates both visual and literal meaning. Most of them are created from letters and transform to an image that gives meaning to the word, or created a new meaning. The well-known of literature work that Thai people know is the work "Don't Be Selfish" (1975), in which Thai letters are composed in the shape of a Buddha in meditation posture. This is the work of a Thai literary artist whose pen name is Thayalu, or real name Charoen Kulsuwan. Moreover, as seen in sergeant Sae Tang's concrete poetic works.
The "Don't Be Selfish" is a work that has stuck in my head since I was a kid. Go back in time, it was the first time I saw a Thai character that could become a buddha image. I was impressed and thought that "It's kind of like this..!?" I liked it from the first time I saw it, it opened up my art world. It would have been the beginning of the so-called "inspiration" and still remains to the present.
“Word From Image, Image From Word”
This is a continuation of the first project, 44 thai alphabets, with the addition of vowels and tonal, forming to become “syllables” or “word”. A finely blended of them as well as arranging the space between the letters to create beauty and shows shapes such as geometric shapes, free forms, and natural shapes to mix them up together. But when you look closely, you realized that it is an image that created from thai alphabets. Using words to create images are required a creativity in Thai language and combined with design capabilities to make the work eye-catching, feel impressed when you read. Moreover, this is a represents the strong culture of the nation, the barriers between linguistic differences are gone, leaving only meaning, the aesthetics of the design and the attractiveness of the image. This collection uses different design techniques in each set. It is 44 works divided to 5 sets which printed in the form of postcards, greeting cards, posters, and notebooks.










