This Land was Made for You and Me:
When I think of America, the phrase "the land of milk and honey" pops in my head. I grew up in a small-town Kansas with miles of farmland and endless vistas, so the earth and sky became one. The converging solid shapes symbolize the Laotian refugee exodus from Thailand's camps to the resettlement in the United States and other countries. With their pastel colors and delicate landscape designs, these Rococo-inspired paintings represent the sweet and sickly feeling that one might get from leaving their oppressed homeland.
“O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air...... “
When I think of America, the phrase "the land of milk and honey" pops in my head. I grew up in a small-town Kansas with miles of farmland and endless vistas, so the earth and sky became one. The converging solid shapes symbolize the Laotian refugee exodus from Thailand's camps to the resettlement in the United States and other countries. With their pastel colors and delicate landscape designs, these Rococo-inspired paintings represent the sweet and sickly feeling that one might get from leaving their oppressed homeland.
“O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air...... “
