The common belief is that good spirits, if sheltered and treated with care, will watch over the land and keep the bad spirits away.
Kanokporn Puwasawatt carries on a fourth-generation family business carving spirit houses in Bangkok, Thailand.
A spirit house topped with a prang, or spire, common in Southeast Asian temple architecture and a simple concrete spirit house in a working-class Bangkok neighborhood. A genial 54-year-old dressed comfortably in a T-shirt and loose-fitting cotton trousers, Kanokporn lives and works in a simple, two-story house behind a sliding metal gate in a neighborhood of narrow, maze-like streets paved over with concrete.
“Before, 30 houses in this neighborhood used to be involved in this craft,” Kanokporn said. “Now it’s only one.”Her parents carried on the tradition, but her father, worried Kanokporn would become “what we would today call a hipster,” pushed her away from studying carving and into computer science. She was working as the manager of a computer company about 20 years ago when her father was stricken with cancer and died.
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