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Nandar Tun

a floating market village in Inle Lake, Myanmar

Nandar Tun has spent her entire life immersed in the fragile ecology of Inle Lake, Myanmar. Raised in a small stilt house, she learned the balance of nature from her father, a fisherman who taught her to read the water’s whispers and navigate its temperamental moods. Now, as the lone guardian of the reedbeds, she feels the lake’s pulse in her bones, and each day is a wrestle against both human and natural forces threatening its delicate harmony.

Tense Contemplative Art

About

Obsession

The initial scent of unknown homes

Voice

Gentle weight of water dusk

Artistic Medium

Handcrafted shadowboxes from reed and bamboo

Technique

Weaving the natural and ephemeral

Influences

Inle Lake's seasonal rhythms; the oral stories of the village elders; the sensation of mist enveloping the morning.

Materials

Dried lake reeds, bamboo strips, fragments of old netting, ink from market dye pots

Scale

Palm-sized, miniature dioramas

Selected 1 time · Last: June 06, 2026

Commissioned Works

"Whispers Beneath Shadows"

June 06, 2026 · tense

"Echos of Turmoil"

June 05, 2026 · tense