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Arts and Well-being

In general, well-being is being well and happily. Well-being refers to a multifaceted and multi-dimensional ideology encapsulating an individual's overall happiness, life's flourishing and satisfaction, and being mentally and emotionally healthy.

 

Samples of my artwork ranging from the combination of free-style poem, photographic art, and video art aligned with several themes of experiential well-being as the following:

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The artwork visualized positivity through difficulty during the COVID lockdown with a slam poem and video art through two main themes, Despair and Hope, within sub-themes abbreviated from the word C O V I D as the following:

  • Despair: Contagious, Obstacle, Victimized, Insidious, Death and Disruption​

  • Hope: Courage, Opportunity, Vision, Insight, Divergence 

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  • A Water Drop, A Faucet, and Me, 2023, Mar 18, Artwork presentation. ICHW2023: 1st International Conference on Happiness and Well-being, Bangkok, Thailand

       

The artwork conveyed multiple worldviews through life experience as well as life cycle as a metaphor of a water drop from a faucet via a poem and video art.

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  • Dream Quest: Self-actualization 1,  2024, Mar 18, Artwork presentation, ICHW2024: 2nd International Conference on Happiness and Well-being, Bangkok, Thailand; https://www.happiness-conference.org/ichw2024 speakers.html                     

 

The artwork depicted the practical perception of self-actualization by means of a poem, abstract photographic art accompanied with a conceptual paper - Srisupawat, B., & Beckstein, A. (2026), Art as Self-Actualisation for Experiential Well-

being (ASEW), submitted to Psychreg Journal of Psychology (PJP).

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  • Triptych: Mind Perception: October 2019, Photo Exhibition, May Gallery, Sverdrup Building, Big Ben Boulevard, Webster Groves, MO, USA

 

Inspired by abstract paintings (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Rothko, and Pollock), abstract photos (Strand, Cunningham, and Leiter) and abstract video art (Rythmus 21, Baraka, and Qatsi Trilogy), Triptych: Mind Perception series experiments on the transformative visual abstraction; from formalism (form) to expressionism (formless) through simplicity, beauty, and imagination.

 

Triptych: Mind Perception is the triplet photographic abstraction intended to serve as visual stimuli in the future art-psychology research, based on the strand of Everyday Aesthetic Experience. Taking photos of general objects around us in everyday life could produce a typical photograph, but taking a picture of those objects through a triptych viewpoint could turn it into an abstract photographic piece of art associated with deeper aesthetic experiences.

 

Seemingly, the reveries of transformative abstract formations are submerged into unrealistic or surrealistic realm where only the mind can wander through.

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  • Remembrance of King Rama IX @ Hua Hin: October 2017, Solo Charitable Photographic Show and Thai Art & Culture Workshop, Port Walk, Bluport, Hua Hin, Prachup Khereekhan, Thailand 

 

Remembrance of King Rama IX @ Hua Hin was applied both conceptual art and street photography to emotionally portray Hua Hin daily lives linked with the honorable signages and images during a year-long mourning period of the death of King Rama IX.

 

The visual clues, specially in Black & White, graphically revealed the anthropological or cultural milieu of scene, set and people in city of Hua Hin in mourning, while the psychological contexts dramatically evoked the profound emotional connections between Hua Hin residents and their beloved king ranging from gloomy, hopeful, determined, optimistic, moving forward, and so on through slice of daily life.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Besides, Remembrance of King Rama IX @ Hua Hin was a charitable photographic exhibition donating all net proceeds to Thai Red Cross for community well-being - co-organized among Webster University Thailand, BluPort  Boutique Mall and Rotary Club of Royal Hua Hin as a community service via class project involving students' community engagement.

 

In terms of psychological impact, this photographic series may connote the potential academic research/ paper about the link between visual art and memory, motivation, or gratitude to live on meaningfully, purposefully and happily - positive psychology, subjective (hedonic) well-being or objective (eudaimonic) well-being- according to the approximately 3,000 royal projects by King Rama IX dedicated to the sustainable living of his people...The key messages from this photographic series metaphorically visualizes that our late beloved king will remain with us now and forever…

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