Community Canvas is an initiative presented by The Culture Show where GBH features artwork from community members on our Digital Mural.
Today’s mural is a painting of Mount Auburn Cemetery by ponnapa prakkamakul. This painting is part of a one-year artist residency at the cemetery, in which she associated body and landscape using the concept of impermanence from Theravada Buddhism.
“Human bodies are transitioning into the earth through burial or sky through cremation,” prakkamakul says. “The changing color of the ground foliage and the sky helps me to examine internally and externally the cycle of our lives.”
prakkamakul is a Thai contemporary visual artist and landscape architect based in Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.
See more of prakkamakul’s work on Instagram @giftponnapa
