An artist in Southern province of Yala has become talk of town after he put up his drawing online and is trying to sell it for a whopping price of THB88 million.
Pinid Kaewklaeye, 38, said this fountain pen artwork is called “The Eye of Legend,” and he started working on the painting when he was 12 after he was hit with a life-changing lesson.
“I started searching for the meaning of this painting when I was in Mathayom 1 after because I found a quote that said ‘it is not important what I took with me from this world but rather what I left for it,” the artist wrote on Facebook.
“I didn’t understand that, at first. So I searched for the meaning. I asked people and did research in the library. Then I discovered I need to do many things and left the world with treasures.”
It took him six years to complete the drawing.
When asked what his drawing means, he said the meaning is written on the back of it, and the person who buys it will get to find out.
Pinid only gave out an obscure hint: “This picture is about everything and every origins of arts in this world. Although it is a new creation, it traces back to the past. This picture is a tool to build everything from videocamera, clothes, and computer.”
Wow.
This is not the first time Pinid has tried to sell the painting. In 1996, he sat on the street near Silpakorn University in Bangkok and tried to sell the drawing for THB19 million, according to NNT.
Panid said a foreign couple stopped their car to check out the artwork. They offered THB10 million, but he refused.
When he couldn’t sell the drawing, he went back to Yala and gave it to a teacher to display at a local school. As his teacher was recently retired, he took back his artwork and put it up online last week.
Pinid is selling his drawing on Facebook page “The Eye of Legend.” A few possible buyers have contacted him, he said.
Photos: The EYE of Legend
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