Takdanai is based in Nonthaburi, part of Greater Bangkok in Thailand. He produces his artworks by etching on copper plates and pressing them onto high quality paper. Describing his own style as weird and ridiculous, Takdanai’s works are characterized by an amalgamation of European medieval notions and contemporary Thai sensibilities.
Takdanai was inspired to create his early works by the power disparities he saw in daily life. He seeks to critique human behavior, and the monsters he depicts in his artworks are a mimicry of the characters he has encountered in his life. By using monsters as an illustration of what he sees as a Machiavellianist performance by society, frequently in relation to paradoxical situations, he hopes to push the viewer beyond the boundaries of their own comfort zones.
The distorted features and presence of mythological creatures in historical European artworks have always intrigued him as he felt they are often contradictory to the rest of the artwork. In his own unique style, he blends this trait with modern-day cartoon monsters in his artworks.
His interest in becoming an artist was piqued in high school, which resulted in him enrolling in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where he graduated in 2020.
Some of Takdanai’s previous exhibited works include at the Printmaking Festival in Chaing Mai, Thailand (2022), the ‘Che Vis Art’ Group Exhibition at the Suan Pakkad Palace Museum in Bangkok, Thailand (2019), and the ‘Missing to King Rama 9’ exhibition at Khaoyai National Park, Nakhorn Ratchasima (2016). He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts Program in Visual Arts at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang.