KMY with novice.   Photo by Sonny Nyein     My sincere thanks to good friend Ma Thanegi for providing the following excerpt from her new book, This is Kin Maung Yin.   “The man… KMY, as he often signs his paintings, is more artist than man… the passion of his art suffuses his being [...]

‘The lovely big-bird jet planes flew to the United States and dropped us at Honolulu International Airport. I thought, now that I am in the wide world outside, maybe hope can grow, I can become one of the international artists that is my dream.’ Paw Thame is a displaced Burmese artist in the United States [...]

  Note:  Here is an excerpt from the new book, I am Cadmium Red by Burmese-American artist Paw Thame. The book is the result of over 300 emails Paw Thame sent to me over a two month period in the winter of 2009 in response to my questions.  Ma Thanegi, the internationally acclaimed author from [...]