From September 17, 2021, to January 30, 2022, Fort Mason Art presented Thitiwat Phromratanapongse: Wat Walls, the debut mural commission in the Public Art Corridor between Landmark Buildings B and C.
The debut mural commission of Fort Mason Art, Wat Walls paid homage to Thai temple walls. The installation transformed loading docks, pedestrian walkways, and a skybridge undercarriage into an immersive corridor gallery, weaving together wave-like forms into delicate pattern fields, birds and other fauna in-flight, and spiritual beings in repose. Working with collaborator Sarah Siskin, Phromratanapongse built on San Francisco’s mural history to transform a silent alley into a dynamic interplay of figures and color.
Thitiwat Phromratanapongse (b. 1989, Los Angeles) received a B.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA and works in Oakland with the Bay Area collective Trust Your Struggle. Sarah Siskin, a mural artist and educator and founding member of Los Pobres Artistas, explores how landscape and place shape relationships among people and their environments through her work across the Bay Area and internationally.
Mural artist and educator Sarah Siskin explores how landscape and place shape the evolving relationships among people and their environments. A founding member of Los Pobres Artistas, she is a resident with La Peña Cultural Center, and an artist with Precita Eyes Muralists. Siskin founded the Bay Area Mural Festival (2016-2018) and has worked on solo and collaborative projects across the Bay Area and beyond.
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