Visual Works

You can acquire my work at my personal Fine Art America website.

Select Visual works created by Timothy Singratsomboune are below.

Vessantara Outlook.

This digital collage combines an idyllic digital photograph of the Mekong in Luang Prabang, Laos with my digital painting Vessantara Tile (Deep Red). It combines the history of Luang Prabang with the contemporary beauty of the city – which also serves as a comparing and contrasting of Lao legends, fine arts, and the equally brilliant nature that stands behind them. (Personal Collection)

Vessantara Tile (Deep Red)

This tiled design explores the Vessantara Xadok (a Jataka tale) that features heavily in the heritage of Luang Prabang (and the rest of Laos). Each minor detail of the design symbolizes a piece of this heritage, but not in a reductive, celebratory way. If you look closely, this piece poses many questions about what heritage means. (Personal Collection)

Sounthala, Ogre Queen

Sounthala is the ogre queen from the story of Putthasen, a tale that is common across Southeast Asia (especially Luang Prabang). In most versions of this story, Sounthala is the ultimate toxic boundary-crosser, and she is determined to destroy the Twelve Sisters, whom she once adopted as her own daughters.
In this piece, she holds a shield that mimics her true nyak (ogre) form.
She also holds gifts like Lao sticky rice for the Twelve Sisters. How often do caretakers, wealth-holders, and gatekeepers use gifts and presents to control the people they care for?
It’s also no mistake that my version of Sounthala mimics national personifications. This won’t be my last journey with Sounthala. When I first heard her story in Luang Prabang, I actually wanted to vindicate her and apply a feminist lens to her story – which will be a very long journey.

Inner Demons; or, The 21st Century Hapmanasouane

Hapmanasouane (aka Thotsakane) is the obvious villain of the Phra Lak Phra Lam – the Lao Buddhist version of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Although the Phra Lak Phra Lam is widely revered across Asia, I have always struggled with how to interpret its messages. To express my inner challenge of this idea, I painted myself digitally as the Demon King of Longka, Hapmanasouane.

Kurma’s Back

At Wat Phu in Southern Laos, you can see carvings of the Hindu Avatar Kurma, the turtle who bore a mountain on his back so that “gods and demons” could work together and churn the Ocean of Milk into the Elixir of Immortality.
They took the naga king Vasuki, wrapped him around the mountain, and played tug of war with his body to twist the mountain like the drum of a washing machine.
On the surface, it looks like a story where compromising with enemies saves the day.
But there’s actually some intrigue to the story. Should we advocate for moderating your views to “working with the other side?” What if the other side in a specific situation is driven by greed, ignorance, White Supremacy, etc? Instead, I just want people to think about how much heavy lifting goes into any form of negotiations.