7-23-2024
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
I once saw a pencil drawing on paper of similar size, a portrait of Burma's democratically elected first PM U NU
"Mr Tender."
by Anna Wallinska.
Anna Wallinska was the artist sister of economist the late Louis Wallinski.
Wallinski was U Nu's economic advisor.
I saw it when I went to interview Louis, then about age 90, in his apartment in DC.
He spoke so softly, so Ispoke softly and when I got back to the radio station nothing was on the mini-disc.
I had to call in tech and do the interview via telephone.
Through their niece, I received a gift of mulberry (Shan) paper. I have only used a few sheets. It's from the 1950s and I intend to make a folded? kite like Ai Wei Wei's Alcatraz "kites."
I'm thinking I should make the spines of wire.
I have to make it so itcan be disassembled and stored flat,
Louis Wallinski died age 92 in 2001.
Rest in Protest, Wallinskis.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D)
National Gallery of Art--Impressionist Movement
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/national-gallery-of-art-set-to-open-paris-1874-the-impressionist-movement/
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