ARTIST STATEMENT
Returning to my roots helps me regain my sense of self as well as express my memories thru art. My art honors the ways of the past and those of my ancestors. My desire is to go back to a simpler time when all we had to do was meet our basic needs, using our minds and natures ingredients.
My art practice is focused on expressing the relationship between ourselves and the natural world. I believe the disconnect between our basic primitive human state and today’s refined human condition is causing unconscious melancholy.
I construct a visual and emotional space where axiological narratives of pain and beauty intersect. Translating my experiences and emotions into an immersive visual form helping viewers better understand themselves and the world around them.
I use a combination of paintings, drawings, writings, video performance, installation, and sculptures to become a collection of autobiographical abstractions to tell my story. Sculpture has entered my practice as a new element, shaped from natures clay, to reflect how grief generates life.
Abstract paintings, made from naturally occurring materials and dyes, represent my memories of the pain and beauty which drive our compulsive and elusive search for happiness.
My language is color, drawing inspiration from the natural world and how color effects our feelings and understanding of the world around us. I use the color yellow to express myself and provide my message. The audience will, SEE yellow representing the sun which provides the basis of life itself. HEAR the sounds of nature, SMELL the aroma of natural pigments and TOUCH nature itself, the colors used are made of natural ingredients, like marigold and turmeric powder creating the yellow.
About the Artist
Suwichada Busamrong-Press (b. 1975 in Khonkean, Thailand) is a Thai American artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is an interdisciplinary artist who begins by recalling her memories in writings and transfers them into paintings, sculpture and performance. Suwichada earned a bachelor’s degree in interior design and fiber from College for Creative Studies and a master’s degree in architecture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, both in Detroit. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in fine arts from Otis College of Art and Design. She has shown her work in various group shows around the country, including in Detroit, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles and Berlin.
