These paintings show how my nightmares have become a regular memory. People that live through trauma revisit these events at night. In Burma, we can barely remember what kind of life we had before the coup. Experiencing, hearing, and seeing news of brutal killings and crackdowns by the junta becomes daily life; a never-ending nightmare. These nightmares do something to our brains; they fill them, rejecting newer memories, like having full storage in your mobile phone. Luckily, I am now expressing these feelings, hoping to reduce the heavy load and move on. But I cannot avoid thinking about how many millions of youths have similar nightmares to mine.
These paintings show how my nightmares have become a regular memory. People that live through trauma revisit these events at night. In Burma, we can barely remember what kind of life we had before the coup. Experiencing, hearing, and seeing news of brutal killings and crackdowns by the junta becomes daily life; a never-ending nightmare. These nightmares do something to our brains; they fill them, rejecting newer memories, like having full storage in your mobile phone. Luckily, I am now expressing these feelings, hoping to reduce the heavy load and move on. But I cannot avoid thinking about how many millions of youths have similar nightmares to mine.
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