A self-taught artist, Busui Ajaw began drawing at fifteen years old and has over time developed an expressive painterly language to communicate both the seen and unseen, the exterior and interior, the material and the psychological. Born in a remote mountainous region of Myanmar, the artist was forced to flee as a young child with her family after a military invasion of their land. Her Untitled self-portraits express her experiences and identity as an Ahka woman, and as an individual who embraces dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and suffering, and life and death.
