Pete's Reflection 06

After presentation today (another of my worst presentation), I feel that I am lost. I missed something. What I am doing now (writing blog) is to think back to find what I have done and what are my problems...

I want to explore the constructed of ideology in Thai family through surrealist methods.

Why?, it might reveal how other systems share the similar processes.

I had read the texts;

• The Construction of Main stream Thought on “Thainess” and the “Truth” Constructed by “Thainess” (Saichol Sattayanurak)

• ไทยๆ (Pracha Suveeranont & Kasian Tejapira)
• ชาติทรหด (มนัส จรรยงค์) ...a fiction by Thai writer in the theme of vernacular Thai...

• What is Social Construction? (Laura Flores)

• It's All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation (Patricia Hill Collins)

from the kindergarten text book

a4, collage and color pencil on paper

37x45 cm, collage and oil on canvas

Those of the texts make me understand more about the context of my work; traditional and untraditional Thai, Thai style soap opera structure, gender, age, hierarchy, relationship between roles and power of space distribution in the house and other that I have not found yet. Then I reflect it from the source on the visual work directly (but does not relate to the game). I think that is the first problem that makes sense of irrelevant between each visual work (include the fiction book).

• Five Reigns, the emphasize of hierarchy in Thai society by M.R. Kukrit.
• Manee, a representation of how good girl should be like.
• Thai style soap opera, temporarily popular culture that constructed pleasurable or notion between man and woman.

On the other hand, the fiction book from Exquisite Corpse game (the story is led by the sentences and images, and let people participate on writing and connecting the story), it quite depends on chance. Problem here is I did not critic much about what I have got from participator in the book.

From the discussion, what I missed is my opinion in the work. What do I want to communicate on the visual work? I want to reveal the truth of how Thai family was affected by visual forms. But if I need to add my comment, what would I say? In other word, what I missed is the content.

Or I should say that what “I want to explore is the possibility of surrealist methods to comment on the constructed of ideology in Thai family”.

Or the cause of my confusion is the improperly organize thought.

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