Darnis Vimonthammawath

Visual Communication (MA)

Shrine to Mother Nature — The shrine to Mother Nature comprise of a wooden altarpiece that also function as a birdhouse, a ritual table for making clay figurines as offerings, an series of porcelain birds in motion.

Ceramic birds — Series of porcelain cranes in different flying position arranged in sequence.

Scripture — A piece of publication narrating the 'mythology' of the project. An account on a dialogue between a bird, Hoopoe, and a modern day ornithologist on the nature of human-birds-Mother Earth relationship.

Clay ritual — Ritualistic bird figurines making using clay as a medium, a material contextualize within the scope of the project as 'The flesh of thy mother'

About

Darnis Vimonthammawath is an artist who engages mostly with the subject of mythology, religious iconography, semiotics, and poetic rendition of art. His work explores the theme of what is known as ‘comparative mythology,’ the idea of how all the stories, myths, theology, and beliefs of our species are connected, drawn from a single source of origin. He did this through his use of eclectic use of symbolism and motifs from different cultures in portraying subjects of human nature, especially the fragility of our soul. By re-contextualizing old myths and motifs to be used as a medium of communication for a contemporary subject, he attempts to demonstrate the power to connect all people to archetypal images that lie deep within our unconsciousness.

His recent project, The Language of the Birds, dives into the relationship between humans, birds, and Mother Earth, exploring the avian mantle ofprophethood betweenthe emerging race of men and their silent mother through speculative, fictional mythmaking. A series of de-anthropizingnarratives from non-human perspectives invites us all toreflect and resituate ourselves withthe idea that humans are not the soleperpetrators of this world’s narrative,but participants who stand equal withthe rest of Gaia’s children.

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