Maung Maung Tinn is a refugee from Burma. He was born of a Karen mother and a Shan father in Karen State in 1969. He has lived in Mae Sot, Thailand, as a health worker and artist since escaping Burma in 1994. With help of many friends, his watercolors have been exhibited internationally: in USA and Canada (2001), France, Belgium (2005), Switzerland and Italy (2003), Japan and Italy (2006). With the profit of his artwork he likes to help poor families inside Karen State as well as those working as laborers around Mae Sot.

Where is the future?

They live on the road, they eat on the road and they sleep on the road

He has gone

Please ... a safe place

Each morning we wake up to the foul smell of garbage

Speak alone, eat alone and live alone

Can it be healed?

I don't have to worry about finding a snack

They will always remember the day of his landmine injury. His wife, then eight months pregnant, carrying him back to the village to find help

Please, wait for him to grow up

Let me take a rest ... for a while, please

Maung Maug Tinn

maungmaungtinn2003@yahoo.com