Saitip is a Thai visual artist and artistic researcher living and working in Poland.
Her practice explores touch, sensory experience, materiality, memory, and cultural identity through textiles, paper, printmaking, ceramics, wood, and spatial installation.
Working between art and research, she is interested in how materials can communicate through touch, movement, repetition, and embodied experience.
The Sacred Field, 2020
Serving as the foundational centerpiece and origin point of the entire Kwan Khao series, The Sacred Fields marks the beginning of the artist’s personal journey into the rituals, spiritual folklore, and agrarian ceremonies surrounding the legend of rice. This grand-scale installation transforms the physical landscape of the paddy field into a monument of spiritual devotion, celebrating the sacred soil where human labor meets divine blessing.
Khao Kwan Thung: The Vessel of Abundance, 2021
In Thai tradition, Khao Kwan Thung, small pouches of blessed rice seeds are kept to bring prosperity, protection, and infinite abundance. This installation reimagines the concept of the "blessed pouch" not merely as a physical object, but as a sanctuary of collective memory and spiritual resonance.
After the Harvest: The Weight of Memory, 2021
This artwork turns its focus toward the quiet stillness that settles over the land once the season's labor is done. Inspired by the traditional mounds of harvested rice gathered across paddy fields, the piece explores the profound duality between nature's physical yield and the meticulous human effort embedded within it.
The Worship of Gratitude 1, 2020
In the Kwan Khao tradition, offerings are not merely symbolic gestures, but an intimate dialogue of thankfulness between the cultivator and Mae Posop (the Rice Goddess). The Worship of Gratitude focuses on this sacred, ritualistic exchange, reimagining the traditional ceremonial offerings, handcrafted bouquets of rice, native flowers, and symbolic foods presented to the goddess to honor, nourish, and thank her for blessing the farmer with an abundant yield during the harvest. These offerings mark a crucial threshold in the agricultural cycle: a moment where human petition transforms into pure thanksgiving, acknowledging that physical sustenance is a divine gift bound to the spirit of the earth.
The Worship of Gratitude 2, 2020
In the Kwan Khao tradition, offerings are not merely symbolic gestures, but an intimate dialogue of thankfulness between the cultivator and Mae Posop (the Rice Goddess). The Worship of Gratitude focuses on this sacred, ritualistic exchange, reimagining the traditional ceremonial offerings, handcrafted bouquets of rice, native flowers, and symbolic foods presented to the goddess to honor, nourish, and thank her for blessing the farmer with an abundant yield during the harvest. These offerings mark a crucial threshold in the agricultural cycle: a moment where human petition transforms into pure thanksgiving, acknowledging that physical sustenance is a divine gift bound to the spirit of the earth.