Many of Srijai s works depict the ascension of the spirit toward heaven, as explained in Buddhist philosophy. The walls of design are made of strips, or layers, which may contain geometric shapes, or elephants, or other objects. By going from the bottom to the top of these pictures, the viewer can trace the path of enlightenment of the spirit. Srijai also employs many common animals and objects as symbols in his work. Srijai uses public symbols, ones that everyone understands.
Elephants can represent the efforts of human beings, or they can represent the animal itself.
Flowers can be ideas, so can stars. Chickens are important animals in Lanna history, and they appear in many of Srijai s prints. Srijai says that the meaning of this picture is fairly straightforward. The detail of line in the arrangement of feathers of the bird, the swirling lines of sky around the stars which in this case are not stars but flowers pasted in the heavens show a stylized kind of beauty and give opportunity to much color intertwined within the shapes. The mother hen s body shape is composed of curves, half circles, and loops, and the strands of each feather are drawn out exactly almost down to the last fiber.