Kaewtrakan “Nymm” Junlabon is the artist behind the alias “The Rubber PARAdoxii”. Alluding to the bedrock of her work, the para rubber trees tie Kaewtrakan’s Nakhon Sri Thammarat heritage and her artistic expression together in this unusual name. Her installations, mixed media and performance art often explore existential questions, with a desire to exist in the paradoxical realm between traditional and contemporary arts. Her art was put on a backburner for several years as she raised a family, but as an art teacher at her See-Din Nature and Creative Space, she eventually made the effort to let her creative juices flow once again. Her submitted work to the Ministry of Culture’s Teachers to the US scholarship programme picked up the thread from her student thesis using rubber as a material, and when combined with her maturity through motherhood, earned her a place among the 10 nationwide artists recognised. Now, back in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Kaewtrakan is using art to shed light on social issues, giving her all to support her hometown community.