https://fd.tllester.info/tags/fd/Recent content in Fd on freeDimensionalHugoen-usTue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/how-i-got-back-the-energy-and-confidence-to-keep-doing/Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://fd.tllester.info/how-i-got-back-the-energy-and-confidence-to-keep-doing/<p><a href="https://fd.tllester.info/pages/get-involved/"><img src="https://fd.tllester.info/freedimensional/images/ChawEiCompressed-300x218.jpeg" alt="ChawEiCompressed"></a>By: Chaw Ei Thein</p> <p>In 2006, I came to New York for a yearlong artist residency program and during that time, I was warned that my safety could not be assured if I were to return to Burma. The reason I could not return was my artwork, interviews I had given with the international media and newspaper articles about my work as it related to a critique of the political situation in Burma at that time. Unable to return home, I was facing very difficult time settling in to life in New York; I was totally frustrated and very worried about how to live, find a way to survive and uncertain as to whether I could continue my career as an artist in this new place with its new challenges.</p>