‘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 [...]

I intend to write about Win Pe; I have for a long time. He calls me his biographer. I must live up to his kindness and trust. So far only research and interview, tea and lunch. Keep watching this space…

See Paw Thame’s new paintings in oil at Mar Mar’s Suvannabhumi Gallery starting August 13, 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Here are the show’s catalogue notes by Ma Thanegi with an excerpt from I am Cadmium Red, Paw Thame’s Autobiography: Paw Thame the artist   “A few creative people exist only as the entity embodying [...]