MY UNIVERSE A BOOK BY BAY BAY

I met Irene in a crummy room on the second floor of a typical

My Universe bis a body fo work and book by Nay Thet Thet Nway also know as BayBay.
She has been producing photographic work under the name Bay Bay for more than four years. Having originally studied Electrical Power at Dawei Technological University, she went on to become a photojournalist. She later worked at Mayco Photo Studio, where she began to develop a more creative visual style. She now works as a freelance photographer and has been exhibited numerous times, including a first solo show in Yangon in 2017. She has also participated in the Yangon Photo Festival, Myanmar’s largest photographic event.

I had noticed the same face appearing in many of the images I

Here the introduction to the book published in 2019.

Welcome to my universe.
When I get a phone call from someone far away,
outside my universe, I feel like vomiting…
Every moment is difficult.
It’s not easy for me to think.
It’s not easy for me to sleep, to talk…
It’s not even easy for me to drink…
I don’t enjoy life.
It’s too difficult to enjoy life.
My doctor, she has a sweet smile.
Her pretty smile becomes shy when I joke with her.
She says my blood chemistry is dependent on alcohol.
I found my own universe through the hospital window.
In my universe there is a car park and toddy palm trees.
I am haunted by my hallucinations. To feel better I produce artworks; photographs or drawings. If I’m not busy making art, I dream of a white dog and a big elephant.
I am too shy to communicate.
I need to drink to be talkative.
I made my father cry begging me to stop drinking.
He is the only one who accepts me.
Everyone else has left.
My grandparents live in Dawei. The first time I went there was to study at university. Everyone said I was so smart. The second time I went to stop drinking. And everyone pitied me. At home in Dawei, I was on CCTV. They were everywhere at home. It took 6 cameras to look after me.
I know myself. I am an artist.
But that is not enough for me to live for.
I just want to live until 30.
Why would I need to live more?