T his week, I began working on a new piece ,an acrylic-on-canvas painting that responds to the recent earthquake that struck near Mandalay, Myanmar. As someone who still feels deeply connected to the land and its people, I felt an urge to express the emotional undercurrent of this tragedy through art.
This work-in-progress is rooted…
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In the aftermath of the recent earthquake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagaing_Fault, I found myself overwhelmed with emotion, shock, sorrow, empathy, and a deep sense of helplessness. As an artist, painting became my way of processing the event. Through expressionism, I channeled those feelings into a series of acrylic-on-canvas works that aim to capture not only the…