Construction
Construction(2005) oil on canvas with mixed media 76 x 76 cm
POA
After arrival in Ban Pong, a transit camp deep in mud and filth, they were transported to the town of Kanchanaburi (Kan’buri, as the prisoners called it), and then marched the four miles to Tamarkan on the river Mae Khlong, where they were to build two bridges: one wooden and one steel. On this painting I have collaged copies of photos of the building of those bridges and the subsequent bombing of the steel bridge by the Allies in June 1945. The Japanese writing is the word for construction (of a bridge).