One Drawing on THAINESS

LIKAY is a Thai version of the Chinese opera, the Japanese Kabuki or perhaps, a drive-in cinema of Hollywood. It used to be what the Thais grow-up with where we learn about love, had a good laughs and shed a few tears, subject to the story unfolding before their eyes in those bright stage lights. Sadly but surely, as with so many other good stuffs in life, it is disappearing fast from a life of a Thai, especially the new generation.

I came across LIKAY unexpectedly just a few day ago on the way home. Its all out, full blown, unmistakable musical tune announce the unavoidable presence of its out-door, open air stage that occupy the entire width of a short dead end street by the Cho Phraya river (I seem to get a lot of involvement with the river recently) I walk around to the front and the full sight of its extremely lit up stage with all the decorative and color took over me, as expected!! With no hesitation, I planted myself on a wooden barrier right in the middle of the road that gave me a first class support for the sketch and I brought myself back to the long lost childhood experience of joy and memory in tandem with each lines on the sketch pad.
The coloring was done immediately after I got back home accompanied by some traditional Thai music I had not played for years.