For over eight years, I have been studying arts. I believe art is a powerful tool that can change the world in many ways. To me, art is the life - everything we see is art. It can also be a therapeutic tool to help an individual through a traumatic situation and influence them to chase their dreams or create change. I considered myself as an artist for the first time when I was studying BTEC Art and Design Foundation at Knowsley Community College. I created a project called ‘Illusions, Dreams and Memories’, about my thoughts, what I believed in and what
I experienced in my life. What I did not know was that this project was about to change my life. Never would I have thought about using art on these personal experiences. I never really considered myself as an ‘artist’. When I did, I realised how art helped me, art saved me and inspired me to create art about my life and what changes I wanted to make. I felt like it was something that pushed me to want to make a change or bring people back down to reality and face things in society that are easily dismissed or ignored. 5
At first, I never had any intensions of going to university and studying an art degree because I never thought I was good enough for higher education. When doing this project, expressing my feelings, I started to belief in myself, and applied to Liverpool Hope University three months after the deadline to see what would happen.
Mr.Panupong Niamphang