Australian Guy

Australian Guy, water color on paper, 18x24 inch

 He’s been living in Thailand for ten years, owns a few beer bars in Pattaya and a Bangkok condo.  Some weekends, he heads over to Saigon, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong or Phnom Penh.   Once every year, he goes back to Sydney for a month, sees his Mum and a few old mates, shaking his head, how can they live such routine lives?  Twenty year wedding anniversaries, a little house with a yard, a mortgage, promotion, maybe a raise.  Only the kids seem worth it

Old Hands

Old Hands, water color on paper, 18x24 inch

Two Old Hands, they’ve lived in Bangkok for over twenty years, on military pensions plus scams.  It’s an easy life with plenty of free time, beer and girls.  Sometimes they play golf, sometimes head over to Saigon or Bali or the Philippines.  A lifetime ago, they grew up in Texas trailer parks and spent their teenage years trying to get laid.

Battle-Scarred Expat

Battle-scarred Expat, water color on paper, 5x7 inch

In Asia for thirty years, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Singapore, Shanghai, Saigon and Bangkok. The grown-up children from his first marriage back in Sydney, his first wife, their mother, a distant memory.  No matter how much beer or how bald, he’s still a player and will be until the day he dies.  Worldly and cosmopolitan, he has already led so many lives, he’s lost count.