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The Mansion Drawing

The Mansion by Vasan Sithiket. Mansion drawing is for the short story The Mansion by Andrew J West. The bio details for the artist: Vasan Sitthiket has built his artistic career on confronting the establishment and addressing taboo social and political issues—both national and international. Vasan, who has become known as the country’s enfant terrible, was presented the Silpathorn Award (Thailand’s highest art award) in 2007 from Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture. The bio details for the writer of the story: Andrew J. West is a Bangkok-based art critic who has written extensively about Thai art. He is author of the forthcoming works Contemporary Thai Directory of Artists and Prateep Kochabua: Destiny to Imagination and his art fiction novel Silpa: the Art of Love (Ruk Nai Roy Silp) was published in the Thai language in 2008. West was born in 1967 in Armidale, Australia, and studied writing and journalism at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), graduating with an MA (Writing), and has been living in Thailand since 2003. West is currently teaching at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) and has guest lectured in art criticism at Silpakorn University. The story ends:Without further hesitation she strikes again, smashing against the case with paranormal power, pulverising the cranium and its contents in a single supernatural blow. “No, don’t tell me, I already know the answer,” she utters in puffs, as the wind drawn in by the heat rising up from the infernal flames of the burning mansion drags her dissipating soul towards unknowable eternity.

by Vasan Sitthiket

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