We see nature as a sort of sanctuary, a halfway house for passing drifters. People are so busy nowadays that we don’t think about it, we don’t include it in our routine, it seems as if nature is only a friend when we’re travelers.

Even when we do not appreciate it, nature finds a way to include us.

We neglect the realities of nature, adventures that translate into great stories are not appreciated by us, realities of leeches, ants, being confined by the woods or a soothing walk gone bad, this is a pattern of society, we do not like things that are not ideal, when things deteriorate, we run.

Like everything else, natures changes with time. We cannot see time, like we see nature. Time is not something we can romanticize,we can romanticize events within time, but does the actual time have a face, does it have a name?

Time takes the shapes of things, because time never ever stands still.

I wish for the concept of time to take the shape of our surroundings, of nature that  constantly picks itself up and moves on. Nature takes its own course. Whether in the shape of a cloud or a steady flow of the river, not unlike time, it evolves.

- by Kade

Kade is a well respected established artist, and currently an associate professor of painting, sculpture and printmaking at the Faculty of fine arts, Chiangmai University. His work always abstract in nature, are unique vibrant visions created by at least ten layers of paint for each work of art. For his new exhibition, Kade is inspired by the reality of nature. The fact that nature like everything else, changes with time. It is never constant, and whether in the shape of a cloud or the steady flow of a river, not unlike time, it evolves. After, afterall.

Opening reception: June 9th 2011, 6.30pm