Pat, water
color on paper, 18x24 inch
Pat
used to work as a dancer, now she works serving drinks. Her kids are ten and twelve, living
with her mother in Udon. She visits them
once a year for a week, taking the bus for eight
hours each way. Her life has been exhausting,
more than most middle-class women from
Europe or North America could imagine or endure. At eighteen, she was beautiful and
could catch a man with just her smile.
Now, she’s wearing out, with many years still to go.
