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a world travel photo blog by Jackie Hadel





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Chaloemla Park



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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist best known for polka dots, “Infinity Nets,” and mirrored “Infinity Rooms.” She has openly connected her art to lifelong psychological distress—especially vivid hallucinations and intrusive, repeating visual patterns that began in childhood—and says she turns those experiences into images as a way to cope and “externalize” what she sees and feels.

Since 1977, Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution in Tokyo, while continuing to work daily in a nearby studio—an arrangement often described as helping her manage symptoms and maintain stability while sustaining an intensely productive practice. Her signature repetition (dots, nets, accumulations) is frequently discussed as both an aesthetic and a self-soothing structure: making order, rhythm, and “infinity” out of overwhelming sensations.

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BigDel (tag: BIGDEL) is a Bangkok-based graffiti writer / illustrator and one of the early pioneers of Thailand’s graffiti scene—active for decades (often described as 25–30+ years in the culture).

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Chula Art Town


JOKER.EB (Joker EB) is a Bangkok-based Thai graffiti writer / mural artist who paints under the name “Joker”



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Silpa Bhirasri (born Corrado Feroci) was an Italian sculptor who moved to Thailand in the 1920s, became a Thai citizen, and is widely regarded as the “father of modern Thai art.” He taught generations of Thai artists and founded what became Silpakorn University, while creating major public monuments and sculptures across Thailand.

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