Looking outwards as a means to reflect within,
Examining delicately what experience comes,
Being clear that there are things unclear and indescribable,
Learning acceptance to go beyond discourses.
This is the method that Chaiworawat uses as the discipline for his life and for his works, which mostly reveal his perspective on the sense of “Self”.

In “Religion of mind” the photographic series Chaiworawat has been working since 2012, he uses himself as a metaphor for both an anonymous person and a concrete representation of the abstraction of time (Body) and space (Mind). He does this by observing his personal emotions, which are important characteristics of human identity. For him, modes of perception are constructed by the external, shaping (or unshaping) and becoming the inner self, a phenomenon that runs naturally and imperceptibly in daily life. With this sense of the “self”, Chaiworawat considers that there is no “self” or “belonging” just time, space, and containers waiting to be filled, absorbing, and reflecting. In earlier, series were titled “Jardin Privé”, from “Jardin secret” in french which mean “Private world”, but Chaiworawat decided to change the title as the project developed. As he learns about the meaning of the self through daily practice, he realizes little by little that the private or the personal is like an illusion of discourse. Even though he perceives things in a personal way, he learns that there is nothing really personal. It is merely a cycle of transformation between personal and non-personal.