C.H.C.H commpany Project Made in Blackburn/UK 2006 The project, entitled “Collaboration – Human – Community – Habit: Made in Blackburn,” is the second in a series following the project in Fukuoka, Japan. In Japan, Chakkrit worked with local textile students to explore creating garments from banana leaves, crossing the boundaries between art, fashion and design. Chakkrit will be based at the Textile and Fashion department of Blackburn College until March 20 2006 and is hosting an intensive four-week project involving the participation of textile students from the college.
The project will represent a company producing clothes and decorative wears made from recycled materials, resulting in a display of the work at Blackburn College. The goal is to encourage people to think about the over-consumption of resources and to learn how to solve pollution problems through creative means.
Chakkrit is very enthusiastic about working with the students and said: “Local culture symbolises the condition of living with nature. At times, local culture’s relationship with nature causes it to be seen as less developed when compared with standards set by the industrialised, western world.“ Chakkrit Chimnok lives and works in Thailand. He works with sculpture, fashion, performance and with recycled materials. He is interested in the changing form and perception of materials in order to play with audience perception and has exhibited widely throughout Asia.
