Vilaykorn Sayaphet: Morning Prayers
鈥淪eventeen Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Hours Exist in Two Years.
Within that time, a lot can occur. You get married. You keep making art. You work to pay your bills. You gain friendships. You lose friendships. Tragic things happen. Life gives you the full range of emotions. In my opinion, life and art are the same.
To start off, I got married and moved in with my wife. We both paint at home at opposite ends of the house. Painting while you have a full-time job is a unique challenge. To quote Picasso: 鈥淓very child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.鈥� A full-time job interrupts the dialogue between artist and painting. Every time you go back to the studio, you have to reconnect, but this time with a tired mind and tired body.
The art that I make is the art that I live. It is consistent with what I do on a daily basis. My art is a working man鈥檚 art. I do not know where my art will take me if I can paint for a year or two without interruption. But I accept the life that I am given. One is not better than the other.
At forty-three years old, I am still curious about the world, and where my painting will take me.鈥� - Vilaykorn Sayaphet, 2019
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鈥淪eventeen Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Hours Exist in Two Years.
Within that time, a lot can occur. You get married. You keep making art. You work to pay your bills. You gain friendships. You lose friendships. Tragic things happen. Life gives you the full range of emotions. In my opinion, life and art are the same.
To start off, I got married and moved in with my wife. We both paint at home at opposite ends of the house. Painting while you have a full-time job is a unique challenge. To quote Picasso: 鈥淓very child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.鈥� A full-time job interrupts the dialogue between artist and painting. Every time you go back to the studio, you have to reconnect, but this time with a tired mind and tired body.
The art that I make is the art that I live. It is consistent with what I do on a daily basis. My art is a working man鈥檚 art. I do not know where my art will take me if I can paint for a year or two without interruption. But I accept the life that I am given. One is not better than the other.
At forty-three years old, I am still curious about the world, and where my painting will take me.鈥� - Vilaykorn Sayaphet, 2019
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