3)My boyfriend is always helping me do everything, even housework. In this painting, we are hanging laundry to dry, and I am hiding behind the clothes to scare him. I want to show both his light-hearted, playful side and the more thoughtful, helpful side of him
(4)My boyfriend always takes care of me, even in small, daily ways like getting me food. Though he doesn’t really climb coconut trees for me, My Beloved Monkey shows how he will go to great lengths to make sure that I am cared for.
(5)In My Beloved Rubber-Man, I imagined that we were both working on a rubber farm, which is very common in southern Thailand. It is considered a very dangerous job here; the workers must extract the sap from the trees in the dark. There are many occupational hazards and the unrest in southern Thailand has made this job even more dangerous. We are extracting the sap and both scared together in the dark—of ghosts or unknown evils. This is a parallel for our darkest times together, when we couldn’t see what would happen, but my boyfriend has stood by me.