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i've been fascinated by back of i community and i found the place myself as a speak to talk with a nice today i'm going through discover bangkok and it's extraordinary audit. so come along with in this city of, 08000000 actually make a moment side by side with wrenching in a rich cultural passcodes this with ultra mountain technology. well, he's got to me, make sure why, but metropolis, sometime there's an immense, i'm hate to. hey, i'm on my way to meet julie baker. studio is located in start in backer. she's one of the out is tackling thailand, but with inequality to both color a.

7 0, thank you so much more in coming through. it's really nice to see you. so just video in there, 2nd floor. that's going to that a actually i know you had a long time, 8 years or so long. yeah, but, but like nowaday, i said your name like to read that good summer in so it's a big change from 5 years ago. 8 years ago. so. so what is the turning point? it does it pretty new for me to hear it up? i'm curious because i don't really consider myself that but yeah, but i'm, i'm glad in order to be florida. i was grew up in the family where my mom and dad is like a very active citizen because they always like go to pretend and i start in like all the time and i was a kid. so i think that i need to do something. and i didn't do it as an artist

perspective, you know, i just threw it as one of tie people. it's so late. i know, but i'm glad i finally i, i couldn't do something and i, i did it. okay. can you show me a bit of your work? sure. i'll give you a tour. so these are my, most of my, some of my paintings. when we look back to the old paintings of my dual man, looks different from her right now, and i think it's reflect how i see the word. how is the debility of the woman in each time in each moment in my life? so we can do you want to look back to my own schedule whenever i will. okay. yeah. so i prepared this does for you i your yes, my master is, you know, in thailand, if you like, are you kidding me in art? if you need to be something else, like i think or designer or do you need to like be something else that related to

money? yeah, those created are. so i enrolled a fashioned school and, and i've learned about how industrial work. and i learned that all of the beauties that all of the trends that we're consuming right now is like a little amount of people. they created that ideal concept of beauty that we all have to follow. and if testing on time so we can never feel like we pretty enough a skinny, you know, be white enough. i can feel it like through your are like, you can feel free and you can connect with the human insight. i don't know somehow, but i don't connect with this. nobody can. yeah, i mean you're going to find a look like this on the screen. so what next? actually i prepare some challenge for you are

a, shall we do? i still portrayed. ok, but this time we're going to use make up to draw it. only make up ok out. interesting. but we're going to do it together. sure. i'll, i'll help you with . oh wow. i feel like a with so good to, to come in and see this space and you know like to be in the room. so thank you for

letting me you're very welcome. and if you like, this kind of ambience, i recommend you to go. we say it was done so because he's a very big oh yeah, i know. yeah. he's the i'm, he's actually out a very good friends of my that to and he is having an exhibition right now in his studio at pocono and it's about equality and an interesting now that i would love to go, can you connect me? sure. okay, that's good. so next up i will be in total on my way to the metro system. best of my conflicts, gary's oh, there is a national dairy metro linked to so many different offices. it's hard to keep count . finally arriving at a noon, i was ready to meet. it is one of the countries more politically in each artist and had a,

a, a, a, you know, social media, me to put out for them. i i couldn't even tell me what to put on my grade. yeah. like a long thin football i. i bought a but now they had that and i mean, i thought i'd like a me

a talk to them. i'm not thinking a lot a lot of money having to do it a bit. i was beginning to understand how the quality in his work, he decided to teach me a math class on were printing, which is an antique act, vote by a lower gear

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why artists have been doing this for over a 1000 years, simply as beautifully company at the same time. this is the yeah, thanks to the center. we can really see dad, he went out in quality. that was and was talking about i'm on the way to the hidden video of an artist who has met it, his mission to critique this uniquely time products. his name is, has done so. one of bangkok must iconic food on his work. it's well contingent topics and politics, redone and social issues. it's now been level a thread by the state. this is why he wears the mass at all times. it's just this to disclose this location. but today i will get a special look into how he creates his payments. the dark i'm coming to say head

has been so and i was told that this is the studio with my bare ha a ha that neither my face in a lot of i have more than money for a dollar. and he, i was doing the you and if wendy that hannah can san jose. what also when i get a moment here while i pull so and i didn't feel like the good name for pop funky lot by name with a little over here. been really want to hear a lot of all along. i'm lower my why a

young i should be. he couldn't do with his happening unless something on there and they allow it done, but it will get how well, okay, sound the banking i have now like secondly, i'm now a good one bye. how come on, you know, either way he he been go, he angry. tie up and go, man who's how he you i wonder about frontier pilot. i'm your panama boy. hang on to a new id. oh yeah, i have another. let me apparently let been like one you'd like to watch or do i have my phone? well, we got we are. mm hm. how old are you? happy, i'm going on to it and they made our love then on. hi. lo and i will open to a group. i am a 9 now do i? oh, i didn't have the same sex. melody is going to start now

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out along. god, mom as he yeah. my enemy, show me a new and pre our play and have a friend. he's doing well and we won't be long. i was there were 280 and i'm and don't talk to one with off one gun boom by one me. a new menu cannot even a quantity don't. yeah. well, i don't think i have nobody woman, we won't be able to move on to talk you about a about when, before they go long for we will let that we were dick. i'm following up with a note would be a good one to talk to somebody it wouldn't be had sent over a fight. so it seemed that is a very real issue with inequality in thailand. but what dressing is, how art is starting conversation about i think it's very complicated. but can i play a role in finding a solution? maybe new, find out?

this is what art is so critical as medium to explore difficult issues. it can highlight sensitive topics in ways that change the ways the side of things. ready hello, if they turn out fairly energized one, bradley, if, if they've been talking, if gory is by reward said bank struggles to example. yeah. reverse. not so long ago . both good main means of transportation in this, in this those time. many of the city's water waves move underground and the many floating markets for nearly all the plays with the non floating time. however, you can still catch the bus service, which will take you up and down to river. it says 15 to 20 this is still allowed, bangkok, china town, one of the liveliest place in the city. let's go explore. i'm here to meet someone read a special connection to displace you and is that the 1st time chinese illustrator

who incorporate her personal feelings and she's why brown detail works often get into any more market. she has a measure, collaborated with international brands working on all sorts of projects with them can be rose to be as i shoot with hello, i got you on you and call you and me and you are not spending on a laugh. now. thank you pat. my back don't need a lot lower. i often me pick one plus b y c o a long way like it could allow why he's not load them again, nickel people. thank you and keep an eye on that and i think i'm,

i've talked to them but couldn't. madeline had played a lot by below. went been a lower all roads up a lot of horrible and got hollow flowers. you decide to take me on a quick tour, rout canals, one off china times, most creative. your nat live and human to open the new comp international my go in the conference. my hadn't been back my back in the kite the i'm thinking about having amazon might be. why pardon me, mom would i remember bit my okay. last style brinninger lemons. i mean, he wasn't being a monopoly, laurie bob with 15. i'm not what mean i on thing. yeah. i'm really worth of i think we've been in yeah. and

a hold on. let me carry a hole before heading to into any do i don't have time to see an artist in recommended. his name is i will be black. he's a face. he an artist experimenting with a face. hate. he's an op and come a task bombings, high landscape, and back home with an 80 s t. i meant i re, i had auto group, but he was briefly visiting bangkok. i. hi, laurie black. yes. a nice to meet you. thank you. good. what you've been a good day, can you boy me with me. so this is my 1st year for today. how did you get into working with when they 1st start doing direct? i thought i, i was, i got caught up with so many people say no, you have to be

a different person. the other person that you know, if they have reflection or we are as a person, i was like also confused. but now i think i got the answer. my address is 6, and it's another part of me inside. yeah, i mean, we comes to like this generated this era that you can ever in drag. it's a sad part of our activity grady as well because we got the be just spider, the normal society. but not only that, but we also, you know, in whole own community we have with the low the out of with, i think we improve right next to me personally, i never, i, i will never be with the payment, but oh, i was you with people on a not yet we are a step all gave

a. i know you don't really except that you just kind of have to leave with them. i'm so lucky. i my, my family is very supportive. they okay. ashley, my alpha today my mom helped me still shed and so my sister helped me stolen that put the right on it. so we recently opened, there's a lot going on, but we won't do that. and she always. and i said we will go to in 22. this is and so, and if it is the are hardware artist from over a band call come to create an exhibit that hello hello, how's it? oh, i love it. amazing anymore. oh okay, me my family, my daddy, a policy with

a amazing mobile or a with how do you know it was amazing man, you have a lot of energy like you guys like the way you walk and dance and you know, the way you move the monday i will challenge for you as to like drag and i get an engine i don't shoe. well one 0 for me. yes for

you. okay. i'm gonna how can you wear advanced with for you is do it for enough for you. ok. you feel like if i had it so something now with looking at that a bit uncomfortable actually like a little bit because like like people get bearing into play. so it feel like i am i do something wrong. just imagine look beyond when you do look beyond that. yeah. now you go. yeah, i didn't good day. wow. that's right. you feel comfortable a little bit when people are staring at me. okay. but you don't feel comfortable

while you're putting the weights on and the lockers aren't that make the address right now. i kind of like it. you know, like it's bill like bill like like a door and bill is the answer because you know what? because you never feel uncomfortable. richards dealt with this. if you feel that way, you want, you want to feel like that. i mean, when you put it on, you don't want to weigh anymore, but you don't feel that up what you're getting right here, watching you. yeah, that the answer to society make you feel bad and maybe you don't want to be who you are as a person. you don't hate this, but they make you feel like you want to hate this. so they hate your higher self. oh, why you have to hide yourself, but you have to value that with you. don't do it. cuts. yeah, that's, that's right. but a just the fact that you don't forget about them be let the society and people

around. i have influenced out too much. ah, on my way to the final song of my 2 days, adventure fancy batson, at least in early times, listed on his house, the wooden stew house on a canal pays homemade await. yes ago, it was known for its high credit not up. it shows that today is a location where artists come to teach and you never know who you might meet. so a fair gay, and then oh busy you like oh, how's your day it be like 2 days and we discover bank hawk again like through our and if it was amazing, what are thing about like the next 5 years, like the art seen in thailand, out there i hope,

and can we have more art seen in their friends cities not only in bangkok, and i hope um, more local or craftmanship, you know, like in different area how i hope to hear it in 5 years. we can imagine like the next generation, but younger than us, like come and believe in art. that is, is the, is, is a very strong power that they can use it to, you know, to, to have a question to read about it. and then to make a movement, ah, i just realized now that talent kind of scene is doing something significant. it's a hopeful community about is what came to bring about change in the face of so much in the quality are, isn't as compelling to the eye. it has the power of influence and in thailand is affecting the younger generation to act up on, sorry my,

and thank you so much for taking this with me though. goodbye from bangkok. ah with blue ah ah

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