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When I was a little girl in Laos I used to watch the boys play in the flooded roads during rainy season. They had a lot of fun. I wanted to play in the flood too but my mom would not allow it. After the floods I saw gold fish gasping for air, trapped in shrinking puddles and dying in the road. I wanted to rescue these fish and keep them all shining. I wanted the fish to live.   Little Girl in Laos is a collaborative piece that many of my friends undertook to help me with while I was suffering with severe unexplained pain in my arms. The pain became so extreme that at times I could barely feed myself much less draw and paint. It was a depressing and infuriating situation. At this time memories of my childhood as a Little Girl in Laos insistently resurfaced. I told my artist friends the fish-in-the-flood story and they became my hands, working to help me as I struggled to create images that reflected this childhood experience. Periodically, one artist or another would work for a few hours trying to follow my instructions in the face of their own art instincts. And so, through trial and edit, we developed this piece together. The dedication, effort and vision that these artists devoted to me was an incredible gift for which I am deeply thankful. These pictures illustrate a little bit of the progress of Little Girl in Laos.
 
Little Girl in Laos
two mixed media panels 12” x 16”
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