
หินในข้าว Road of Rocks in Rice
"Road of Rocks in Rice” (2024) proposes the context and impacts of rocks or pebbles found in rice production, framing the intention to extract its causes and factors. Members of the artist's family are farmers who plant and consume their own crops in daily lives, so they typically find pebbles mingling in the cooked rice while eating. Kanokwan traces back this important piece of information in her hometown, Ubon Ratchathani province, where local people eat sticky rice as their main course. Some limitations and below standard quality processes in self production causes pebbles to often mix into the rice, leading to them crunching on bits of pebbles while eating, a total killjoy during their meals. More importantly, these culprits could severely harm their teeth.
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Kanokwan shows the story through diagram structure, elaborating how rocks normally appear during rice production. The problem is tracked throughout the various processes and its impact is highlighted. She draws diagrams on the rice sack and presents some matters and evidence found from various kinds of resources.
Aside from the clarity the artist intends to exhibit upon the material, she also adopts 'Hae Khao Pan Khon' tradition which is one of the Boon Pha Wet traditional merit-making ceremonies in Isan. Isan locals believe that their crops would grow abundantly as she sees it as one of the rice production's processes. Audiences would get a chance to knead the sticky rice into the tiny-fist size to decorate the Khao Pan Khon tree as the representation of ideal rice quality and ultimately the hope to eat them at their best.


Road of Rocks in Rice, 2024, Dimension Variable, Sacks of rice, Diagram (Drawing), Video (1) 2:09 mins, Video (2) 2:19 mins, X-ray film, Typodont Teeth Model, stone gravel,sticky rice seeds, sticky rice ball, photograph, Rice Polishing Stones, paddy





Video (1) 2:09 mins

Video (2) 2:19 mins

Khao Pan Khon, 2024, Dimension Variable, sticky rice ball, coconut stick, Rice Polishing Stones




