Of all the places visited,
however,
Burma,
now
known as Myanmar, ���is my
favorite,����� he notes. ���The
landscape is astonishing,
it���s so beautiful. And there���s
something about the people
that���s very endearing, too.
They���re very gentle and
accommodating. Although
poor, they���re friendly and
always smiling.�����
In words that could be
applied as much to what
might be called ���travel art,���
Liesl Schlesinger, a literary
critic for The New Yorker
once wrote that good travel
writing transmits ���the weird
magic of distant cultures
. . . the vitality of their
otherness.��� And wherever
he goes next���Turkey, Sicily,
Easter Island are presently
under
consideration���
Lovejoy can be counted to
continue doing the same in
his��painting.��H
The abbot at the monastery of Nyaung
Shwe near Inle Lake, Myanmar.
HYLAND
