Art
flourishes from inspiration which is rooted in life. Artist
Duangkaew Phityakornsilp and his team worked hard to bring life
to the fiberglass “wax” figures, and the rigour of this intentive labour
was itself as source of inspiration.
Creating
the figures presented a number of challenges. Thailand’s
climate forbids the use of wax as the main building material:
the wax would melt in the heat, and the dust would ruin the skin texture.
It really took more than one decade of trial and error to perfect the
technique of creating “life” out of fiberglass.
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