Sawatchrokorn Wannasorn
The Totem
oil on canvas2025
130 x 250 cm
Drawing from myths across Southeast Asia and India, Sawatchrokorn explores humanity’s early reverence for all living things. Before the rise of organized religion, nature itself was seen as sacred—mysterious, dangerous, and divine. In The Totem, a human figure is enveloped by a great Naga whose form recalls Khmer sculpture. The serpent alludes to the Samudra Manthan—the churning of the ocean of milk—symbolizing the eternal cycle of creation, reverence, and transformation between human and divine.
€ 12.000
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Drawing from myths across Southeast Asia and India, Sawatchrokorn explores humanity’s early reverence for all living things. Before the rise of organized religion, nature itself was seen as sacred—mysterious, dangerous, and divine. In The Totem, a human figure is enveloped by a great Naga whose form recalls Khmer sculpture. The serpent alludes to the Samudra Manthan—the churning of the ocean of milk—symbolizing the eternal cycle of creation, reverence, and transformation between human and divine.
€ 12.000
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