My thouroughfare takes place in the very busy flower market
: Pak Khlong Talat, Occupying a huge open warehouse roof, the area consists of
all flower vendors, constantly moving in and out for delivery and keeping
stocks. Located on the Chak Phet road, the roads are filled with trucks and
vans with massive amount of flowers to be displaced within the market. Almost
every person would have their hands busy with a pack of flowers. Ranging from
orchids, marigolds, jasmines, roses : each had unique style of packing either
in small quantity or large. Being a wet market, it's recommended to wear
slippers.
In my previous phase of the project, I dealt with the Saweta
Chatra Throne from which the concept of framing, ornamentation, orientation,
symmetry and importance/value were developed. After my initial thoroughfares including
the Benjasiri park and Chulalongkorn Campus Library : it referenced the concept
somewhat directly. So furthermore when discussed it was asked whether to have a
thoroughfare directly questioning the validity of importance. How does a thing
become important, to what degree? Hence I chose the Pak Khlong Talat which is a
potential space of possessing things that all have the same importance yet shout
out its own attention to our eyes. The balance is diminished and the importance
of a bunch of flowers or a certain texture as how Latour puts it, is judged by
the person. We move closer to the attracted thing because of its aesthetic
appeal, ornamentation highly visual.
One of the direct attractions were that of the green orchids
which I never witnessed before that lead me to view it closer. The rest of the
flowers pre-existed in my mind and lead to a with-drawed attention. The concluded addition to my concept of framing was that in order to achieve visual importance, especially when dealing with an object: one has to carefully and skillfully ornament it so as to provoke beauty. Further analysis would involve in producing the actual Talat space and my route of travelling.
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