A traditional Lanna ( North Thai Culture) provided music at the opening.

Chiangmai artist and street perfromer Anapat Pakdee serenades

a recycled Royal personage on his almost tuned saxaphone, that 

he has created from drink bottles, can tops and paper cups.

Anapat and Nok - Jade's friend and Chiangmai cultural worker Nok

 A fanciful Lanna costume by dance lecturer Manop Manasam and

a traditional Lanna crafted religious banner in cloth and gold leaf.

A disturbing work by Tawatchai Puntusawasdi who has exhibited in both Venice and 

  and Sydney Biennales. Born in Bangkok, he  lives and works in his Chiangmai studio.

The Animal's World by Pongdej Chaiyakut 2012. Pongdej is Dean of the Fine Arts CMU

Wood sculpture by Peerapong Duankaew - who has exhibited ANU Australia and a detail of The Animal's World by Pongdej Chaiyakut  shows no reluctance to present human suffering

  Installation by Padungsak Kochsomrong. Political opponents make war in an unstable  house built on the the red white and blue colours of the national flag.

CMU sculpture insructor CMU Fine Arts Udom Chimukdee in front of his installation 

Word from the Intuition, which uses a traditional calligraphic Buddha form with mounds 

of ash and salt, to prick the consciences of gourmet Thais who enjoy a rare and expensive mushroom at the expense of the forests that are regularly burned to cultivate the plant.

The artist Arun with one of his huge burlap and palm leaf creatures that symbolize 

the inner evil of man as giant gluttonous animals that consume their own innards.

One of Arun's creatures in the act of consuming the evil contents of its own stomach.

CMU students developed a puppet troupe based on traditional Lanna puppets

A final tribute to Lanna culture in this glorious lantern crafted by a CMU graduate.