“THE BOAT IS LATE TODAY”, 1995
Mingun, Myanmar
47 x 76 cm
Collection of Ms. Peggy Suhirman
Bali, Indonesia
Three Burmese women, wearing batik sarongs, squat in a semi-circle on the bank of the Ayerawadi River. They wait for the return boat to the city of Mandalay, one hour downstream. They have been to the village of Mingun, home to a bronze bell reputedly the largest in the world, at the gigantic, uncompleted Mantara Gyi Pagoda and of a graceful memorial pagoda built by King Bagyidaw for his beloved wife Princess Hsinbyume. The small white pagoda with seven concentric wavelike railings is modelled on the sacred Mount Meru of the Buddhist cosmology. |
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