Noise And Cloud And Us
(in collaboration with Kyi Kyi Thar)
2020-2021
“Shwe, we just don’t talk about it. Most of us have someone in the family who is struggling with mental health. We just don’t talk about that openly.” said a close friend who lives a thousand miles away.
How does it feel to see someone you care and love so deeply constantly defeated by mental illness? How can we cope and reimagine our individual and collective pain?
Noise and Cloud and Us is an exploration of trauma, empathy and kinship, emerging out of personal experience caring for a loved one struggling with mental illness. A collaborative journey with the artist's sister Kyi Kyi Thar, the work includes photographic and mixed media presentation that seeks to surface and tend to the hidden wounds of the psyche. “Noise and Cloud and Us” resist capturing an easy picture of living with mental illness. Rather, it engages with image-making as an empathic response and to reimagine a sense of recovery.
