Morakot Ketklao

In this series of work, Ketklao focuses on the natural scene around her by viewing it through the synthetic materials of glass windows, metal fences, and iron gates. These ubiquitous structures are designed by humans to prevent something from happening. It is a paradox that their decorative patterns create visible tension. In the time of isolation at home during the pandemic, details around her life have become evidently visible and magnified. Her interest in the topic of humankind and nature keeps growing over time. She believes that since we all grow up with different interactions with nature, each individual will have a different appreciation for the context of the environment.

This body of work aims to develop a contemporary dialogue about the landscape through painting, by giving meaning to the imaginative visual relationships of nature, architecture, space, and time.

The artist is interested in exploring how environmental issues of the world effect our daily lives, as well as their emotional impact. By creating a visual language, Morakot reimagines sites of urban expansion, as well as natural habitats. She questions, if and how these worlds can co-exist?

The artist uses painting as a connection point to create relationships between architectural structures and natural landscapes.

Morakot Ketklao’s work explores connections between the personal and the shared experience of global climate change. She relates her everyday observations of the nuances and subtleties of her immediate environment to those of our ever-changing planet through abstract forms. She follows cues from the natural world and finds pleasure in observing its anomalies and curiosities. She has developed an emotive visual language that expresses her concerns about the loss of the natural world while exploring themes of compassion, empathy, and friendship.

Morakot’s work takes form through a diverse landscape, but always has roots in natural phenomena. The human attempt to understand and sometimes control our environment.  She tries to connect the relative of differences between life and natural scenery in the age of change. Ultimately it is the ebb and flow of human participants with the complexities of nature that threads through her work.