Dealing with Pain by

Bussayamas Nandawan

Sitting is the posture of Buddhist people.
“Dealing with Pain” reflects how the people handle the misery.
The sitting Lord Buddha image is the most important symbol.

Right livelihood was a part of Buddha’s Eight Path to enlightenment. The Eight Path is a formula for creating a life and the world of caring and compassion. It involves a system of cultivating mindfulness or awareness in everyday life. Now a lot of people and Bussayamas believe they had found the bridge between Buddhism and Urbanism. With majors in philosophy and environment, Nandawan found a well meaning idealistic, social and surrounding.

As an artist, Bussayamas want to merge her idea with her livelihood. She had spent years learning how to live a sustainable lifestyle, grow the trees, recycle paper, plastic and glass etc. In 2007 onward, she signed up for 10 days mediation courses. Since then she has put her researching, managing, fixing, sitting and systematizing many things. It had become mostly matter of “Survival” by that time. But life is unpredictable and could go up and down. So how does one maintain a “sense” of calmness? When the future is so uncertain. There is always the possibility or hope that this artwork will share a balance and experience with people who viewed this work.

Bussayamas Nandawan

Bussayamas studied art at Silapakorn University, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts.
Her favorite solo exhibition called “Hold Them High” was shown at the faculty in 1998 after she finished bachelor degrees. The work was a set of 20 large size abstract paintings. In 1999, during she was studying master degree at the same University, she was chosen to study at Ecole Nationale Superieure ds Beaux Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, France. Her work called “Abstract painting” was showed in Paris three times during 1999 to 2001. She was artist in residence at Vermont Art Center (USA) in 2000. She was inspired by beautiful view and scenery of Vermont and choose “The Landscape” as a main concept of her
work. As a result, she made project called “Geometry”. In a same period, She also made nude work called “Peeping”. She shoot video of woman’s breast, image was blue –like a color. Through this work, she tried to reflect her question about nudity.
She is also known as a columnist and art book translater. She’s been contributing many essays for Fine Art Magazine and translate English book called “Pop Art” into Thai.
At the moment, she is a fulltime art teacher at King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladklabang (KMITL) School of Visual Art.