Rotund For Success
Sep 11th, 2008 by Jinja
I was getting on a pickup truck taxi once, and listening to the passengers talk:
“He’s from America.”
“But he’s not fat.”
Thank goodness heroin chic never caught on in Cambodia. They’ve tried starvation chic and it’s just not cool.
Art above by Pal Poursith, based on a real-life story. In preparation I asked a Khmer and barang friend to take a few reference pictures for him; he got the proportions right and completely reinterpreted the photos illustrating this column:
‘Twice Up’ http://www.expat-advisory.com/cambodia/phnom-penh/reception-and-perception.php
Tags: cambodia,illustration
