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FORWARD

Dr John Yu AC

When Traijak Poolkasikorn’s first book was published in 2014, I hardly
expected that a second book would follow so quickly but then again
I did not expect him to open up and express himself so freely and
openly as he explored new ways and other mediums in his art.

I have always thought that the visual arts were based firmly in drawing
and that the artist could then build on that skill to discover how else
to speak about the passions that were held deeper within. For
Traijak or Kaikwan as he signs his work, that passion would always
involve his loyalty to his cultural roots and to Buddhism as well as his
discovery of Australia.

Abstract art has given him an important way to say what he felt
and to record the way he saw life and nature around him without
being bound by traditional relationships of form and colour. I am
pleased that the voice of the Australian bush has spoken to him so
strongly, it remains one of the cohesive forces that bind Australians
together no matter from where we have come.

I like to think that he has become stronger as he feels free to be
himself. I admire what he has achieved and feel proud to be his friend
and to have been somehow involved in his growing maturity. I have
no doubt that there is more to come.

Dr John Yu AC
Sydney 2015

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