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ARTIST: Ping Sasinan
COUNTRY: Thailand
EMAIL: ping.sasinan@gmail.com
CONTACT: www.instagram.com/sasinan.png/
Ping Sasinan is a Thai illustrator and comic artist based in Bangkok. They like to explore large ideas through surrealism and elaborate stories that are personal and meaningful. Their works often meld mythologies and folk lores of both the eastern and western's, in order to recreate, reshape and reinterpret themselves into something new.

Dear Places of Familiar Faces

Dear Places of Familiar Faces is a 7-page risograph zine printed in one color (Blue). The zine
includes 6 illustration vignettes that depict memories in Manila and a small note on my thoughts on SEA and the aftereffect of colonialism, inspired by a conversation with fellow SEA artists. The original artworks were done with ink and pencil, scanned, and put into the format of a zine. They are recreations of buildings, vehicles, and food I experienced while visiting the Philippines in 2024. The experience is quite surreal. Since Manila has a similar feeling to Bangkok, yet has its quirks and personality that are clearly different, hence the name of this zine.

Tudigong

Tugidong is an A3 digital illustration of a Tudigong altar. The inspiration for this piece is from the desire to draw an object commonly found in Bangkok. The altar is a staple of many Chinese-Thai households, and despite its banality, I found its representation interesting.
The way culture from a different soil was planted and stands in the face of the rapidly changing world, the piece of identity woven into the fabric of the present time.

Unicorn

Unicorn is a 19.5x27.5 cm digital illustration depicting a humanoid creature with a horn, similar to a Unicorn, stoically sitting on the shore, behind them stand parts of the whale skeletons. This artwork is inspired by the religious concept of Samsara and the philosophy of existentialism, telling the story of a young unicorn at the threshold of adolescence, enduring the weight of life: to be born and die. That they must accept their limited time on this Earth, for they will die and be forgotten. Upon hearing such gnarling reality, what else would one do but paralyze in fear, but despite of it, they live anyway.

Shade of Selves

Shade of Selves is an A5 digital illustration of the flowers and shards of a vase dropped on the floor. Next to the flowers is a panel of a person holding some flowers that seemed to be picked from the ground. The idea of this piece is to reflect the nature of ‘healing,’ especially in mental health, as the process will never quite be straightforward. Once the pain appears to fade, it may rush back without any sign. But as long as we are alive, it is our responsibility to mend them, no matter how many times it requires.

Escape Reality

Escape Reality is a 20x12cm digital illustration depicting the scenery similar to a classroom corridor where tree branches mysteriously go through the window. On the ground, you could see a person with headphones reading a book, next to them are 3 panels of ice caps melting. This personal piece is inspired by a YouTube video about ice caps melting in Iceland. It is quite absurd that in the 21st century, technology allows us to exchange information in an instant. Yet upon hearing the devastating news of an oncoming climate disaster, there was nothing to be done. I would rather drift away in a non-existent memory of a peaceful Sunday afternoon, an emulation of the idea of summer nostalgia, disconnecting from my reality.

Fauns

Fauns is a 20x20cm digital illustration of two fauns, half goat and man mythical creatures, playing an instrument on a lush green background. Both of them appear to have scars on their chest, indicating a trans body. This artwork started with an inspiration to make a mythical and fantastical work. But upon introspection, it is an unconscious daydream, yearning to live freely as a creature of in between. To break free from the shackles of gender and its limitations is a fantasy indeed.

The High Priestess

The High Priestess is a digital illustration that is a part of my tarot card series. The artwork presents the feminine figure with three pairs of wings with eyes. In her hand is a severed head and a mirror reflection of a face. The composition of this piece is a reinterpretation of the card, the High Priestess, often associated with intuition, mystery, and the unconscious. It tells the story of Ahkasha, the goddess of the moon, who lives between the realms of the mortals and the gods, as she perceives the ascension of the new god in the world of reflection.

Bows and Arrows

Bows and Arrows are A5 pages of my dip pen ink practice. The artwork continues the motif of mythical and fantastical elements by using the creatures of faun and harpy. It is not only a practice for ink crosshatching, but also an exploration of narrative in my illustration. I have always been drawn to fairy tales and their larger than life stories. In this case, I want to make my own: the creature of both human and animal, struck and immobilized by the weapon of arrows.

Last Crane

Last Crane is a digital illustration of a prophet holding a dying crane in his arms. The crane was struck by arrows. The prophet was softly kissed by his god, his lover, who is leaving him. This illustration celebrates the launch of the comic 'Last Crane' by Narsid. It is a reinterpretation of the story: a journey of the heartbroken prophet who was abandoned by his god, to find his purpose to live again.

Chain of Flowers

Commissioned book cover illustration for the Thai translation of Kanae Minato's thriller fiction: Chain of Flowers [花の鎖]. The artwork is digitally painted, and each element represents the characters and their relationship through the symbolism of mountain flowers, moon, and snow.

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ฺBounded by Wounds

A Knight, Suriya, was condemned to his fate of resentment and loneliness, as an exchange, he will never lose the reason to live, to give his body and soul in service of The Goddess of Eternal Lies. He will be bound to his homeland that never cares about him, but only the faith and prowess he could give to the kingdom. Where the roots are filled with sickness, there is nothing he can do. It is his choice to keep the sickness of the roots in exchange for something he believes to be greater than his life.

An illustration accompanied my fantasy comic, Requiem to the Goddess of Eternal Lies.

Requiem to the Goddess of Eternal Lies

Requiem to the Goddess of Eternal Lies is a 80 pages fantasy comic following Farahn, the high priestess who knows something she should not have, and Suriya, the holy knight whose life belonged to the faith in The Goddess of Eternal. Their land was plunged into power struggles since the disappearance of the Eternal Emperor, and together, they journey to learn the truth, with Farahn’s promise to break the curse of this land. Yet one question remains: would the weight of truth too heavy to bear for a mere mortal such as Suriya?

Ocean Trinkets

An illustration of a narwhal-inspired creature, surrounded by the unremarkable trinkets of the sea. In the creature's dream, they would see beauty, despite surrounded by all sorts of mundane things. Could you do the same? To keep dreaming of beauty, glamour, richness and future for the place that would never be. Could you keep dreaming forever?