Sep 21, 2021
“My art is a way to show that we are fighting”
For us in Myanmar, the art reflects our reality.
We can resist the violences we know firsthand, to truly equate teaching and learning with openheartedness, with survival, even with nurture.
What we liked most of all was each other. All three of us, the glorious fabric of the relationship, the family we made of ourselves—but we were losing the exhilaration we’d once felt, the wild emotional loops of our shared-identity roller coaster.
It was an acrimonious divorce. I wanted justice. I settled for truth.
