Kamin Lertchaiprasert : Beyond... (sculpture) Based in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Kamin Lertchaiprasert considers art as a process for a better understanding of life and nature, and takes a course of creative activity that emphasizes process, aiming to integrate art and life. His works are often based on real-life experience such as events of daily life and conversations he had with people. After re-apprehending those experiences objectively through his daily practice of meditation, the artist transforms them into his works as diary-like sculptures and drawings. Many of his works depict human figures sitting in meditation which can be interpreted as quotidian portrayals of the artist or the people around him, rather than as representations of Buddha