Win Pe used to introduce me to friends, “This is Chris. He is my biographer.” He would say it with a twinkle in his eyes, a little smack of his lips and a tilt of his head. A big smile would appear and then a healthy guffaw– poking fun at us both; at [...]

‘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 [...]