Thigh Bar

Thigh Bar, water color on paper, 5x7 inch

Pom is the manager of Thigh Bar at the entrance to Patpong.  In the heart of tourist sleaze, surrounded by drunken Expats, desperate bargirls and wandering ladyboys, she somehow manages to stay friendly and relaxed.  If you have been there once in the last ten years, she will remember your name and what you ordered to drink, even the name of your girl and where she ended up.  If you know enough to show respect, you will be treated well and only hustled a little.  On the other hand, if you act like an asshole, it will never be forgotten.   You will always be an asshole, from the moment you walk in the door until the day you die.

Pom

Pom, water color on paper, 18x24 inch

Pom, the manager of a Patpong bar, has worked the Bangkok Night for 30 years, never as as a dancer but as a cashier and manager.  She has seen every kind of man and every kind of woman, great, good, bad, horrible and in between.  Every situation in the ongoing drama of man woman relations.  All the distortions and variations of human behavior.  A hundred thousand customers a year, three million in all. Each customer, drawn in by the power of the Bangkok Night, to be obliterated or revealed, triumphant or defeated, passing from one lifetime to the next in the endless cycle of their being.