An Art with Candle and People Participation for the Development of Art with Community

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study the artists’ work with candle, to examine Thai artists’ work that the people have been involved, and to develop ground preparation method with candle on plywood.
The results showed that the creation of candle work had different patterns. They were traditional and creative ones. In traditional patterns, candle material could be melt into any shape and then carved into the candle used for Buddhist Lent. In the other hands, in creative pattern, ready-made candle was mixed with the other materials such as wood, iron, metal, paper, canvas and plastic etc. So the wood had a loose pattern. Sometime the 2 methods could be seen on some works.
It was also found that the artists would like to express more the concept to disseminate than candle application. For the creation with people have been taken part, the artists asked people to react and reflect with the work so the creation came from the two parties: artists and people and the work would be perfect. The work which people have been involved were varied based on the characteristics of particular work, including touching, leaving stone, writing postcards, eating, drinking etc. In those activities, the number of people could not be expected but let them to react that art work.
In developing the ground preparation with candle on plywood, the advantages were that the works were strong, weather-resistant but not brittle. The ground preparation had been tested and approved in this study. More importantly, people involving the art work would start with the ideas first and the method would come later according to the artists. If the method is too difficult, the people would not like to take part, perhaps, there were only really interested people taking part.
If could be summarized that the ways that people could take part easily were touching, listening, speaking, writing, eating, drinking, blowing, and candle lighting etc. In melting candles or carving candles, people had less participation.