Jirapat Tatsanasombon's pop-style paintings resonate with Thai youth culture, where appropriation and reinvention are readily assimilated. Emanating from a country that wantonly devours all things Western yet us vehemently protective of its own traditional cultural heritage. Jirapat's art wittily conveys the dilemmas embroiling contemporary urban Thais, including the indeterminable affects that rapid modernization is bringing upon his countrymen.