by Eain Aye Kyaw

To Market 2012
121x91 cm
Eain Aye Kyaw

Eain Aye Kyaw was born in Yangon in 1981. Inspired by a painter at the end of his street, he attended the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon from 2001 to 2004. After graduation, he worked as a commercial artist for the tourist trade, and as a housing broker. He became a full-time artist in 2010.

This picture of peasants heading to market on the back of a farm tractor is a stylized depiction of the rural life still lived by 70 percent of Myanmar's population. Already it is somewhat nostalgic, for as large-scale industrial farming, or agribusiness, spreads across the land, many of the old ways are fast disappearing.