Ponnapa Prakkamakul is a multidisciplinary artist and landscape architect based in Massachusetts. As a third-generation, ethnically Chinese born in Thailand, she relocated to Hong Kong then the United States. Inspired by her multinational background, Ponnapa’s work explores the relationship between humans and their environment, focusing on cultural displacement and sense of belonging. Using found materials foraged from landscapes and stories collected from local communities, Ponnapa aims to create place-specific artwork that truly represents their identity and cultivates a stronger sense of place. Ponnapa holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design where she received the Lowthorpe Fellowship Award upon graduation. Currently, Ponnapa is a member at Kingston Gallery and a landscape architect at Sasaki. For more information on Ponnapa Prakkamakul, visit: https://ponnapa.com/
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Over a year ago, what used to be grey concrete turned to gold – a radiantly colorful mural unified a community of local residents, visionary youth, vulnerable unsheltered people, and more through an amalgamation of dancing noodles, a majestic dragon, illuminated candles to both celebrate birth and as a vigil to honor those who are gone, and a dialogue of… Read more →
I went into the woods because I wished to livedeliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,and not, when I came to die, discover that I hadnot lived. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a mostadvantageous point from which to contemplatethis world. Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
To go into Solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as for society. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays
Creeping along the endless beach amid the sunsquawl and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too,are the product of sea-slime. Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn inme. Moral reform is the effect to throw off sleep. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
2016 installations with voices imprinted of Boston Chinatown residents’ interviews A slideshow with photography by Hanna Estice and courtesy of Sasaki