Checked out of Bangkok and headed for Chiang Mai in the North. Upon arrival we jumped into a van and headed off to Suan Park restaurant for a round table discussion with art professors and artists from the area. Michael Morrow, a most affable consulate general, met with us as well. He discussed the American Artist Abroad Program. I then talked my general theories of the poetry of imagination and the importance and difference of inspiration. My thoughts were well received and then we spoke about coalitions, networking, and money for artists...! TOUGH TIMES for artists globally are ahead, I am afraid.
In the afternoon after a studio visit with Dr. Wattana we headed to the Agape Home for Children. Nothing can prepare you, or me for this...children born with HIV, orphans.
Suffering...really alone, isolated...somethings don't wash off. These children are brave, child like, wounded, adult like, pained and damaged in a place that is an incomprehensible hell...My hell was my helplessness...
I showed pictures, we drew, sang and went on. The American Embassy brought gift bags for all.
Artists roundtable in Chiang Mai
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Light the fire of influence
outgrow yourself
glass slippers of the soul
illustrious and beautiful
Where is he now?
influenced
no doubt
J
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