Lum Ton Bha Noon (under jackfruit tree)
 

Lum Ton Bha Noon (under jackfruit tree)

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Lum Ton Bha Noon is a northern word meaning "under the jackfruit tree" which is the beginning of the relationship story between the jackfruit tree, grandfather, and a young woman who is a granddaughter. The writer often sees grandfather doing things under the jackfruit tree in front of the house, whether watering or harvesting the fruit to cook. The jackfruit tree grew together with the young women until it was large and shaded as an area for family activities. Therefore, the jackfruit tree is a tree that has a meaning of support that nourishes the way of life of young women who were writer and grandfather who was born before.

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The passage of time may have pushed the way of life or some meaning to be lost under changing conditions. The young woman sets herself up as an observer of the changes in the jackfruit tree along with exploring the way of life of previous generations and nature by bringing a comparison of the meaning of trees as nature to become food as a culture and transform into other things endlessly. In addition, the surrounding objects in the young women's memories are also recreated with an effort to contain each moment to make what was once a memory reappear.

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This exhibition presents artwork through the change in the meaning of things through food ingredients that are processed in a trapezoidal cabinet which is comparable to a cabinet that stores thoughts. The cabinet is clad in a long piece of fabric dyed with jackfruit leaves and is patchworked that blending with the thickness of the fabric as if it were a composite of memories of various moments that are vivid and sparse. Likewise, branched to the motion in the old monitor shows the grandfather cooking the jackfruit curry, also alternating with the present of him climbing, sitting, and talking to the granddaughter under the jackfruit tree, which is comparable to the old picture when the grandfather used to sit beside the jackfruit before growing on overlapping anthotype printings and reflexivity writings toward the thoughtful of young women.

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