Through the paintings and testimony in this book, Cambodian children living with AIDS or impacted by AIDS explore their identities, describe their daily lives, engage their imaginations, and talk about their dreams for the future.

The Cambodian Journal is a book of drawings that traces artist Valentina DuBasky's journey in Cambodia between 1994, after the cease fire ended the long civil war and established a fragile democracy, and the first Cambodian National Elections in 1998. It is a journey taken among survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide that claimed over a million and a half lives. Through her artwork, DuBasky bears witness to both the trauma of war and the journey of recovery. The drawings are inspired by Cambodians who shared their stories and by encounters with remarkable people whose efforts make a...

"After" is a book of letters in the form of poems that poignantly describes the author's life and experiences as a child before, during and after the Khmer Rouge. It traces the author's journey out of Cambodia to the United States and the experiences he had thereafter, through loss of and separation from family members, a kind of unity emerges as each poem addresses the author's yearning to make sense of one of the greatest tragedies of our world.

Soul Survivors gives voice to women and children in Cambodia who survived the genocide (1975 - 1979), when nearly two million people died from execution, starvation, or disease. Through their detailed personal stories, fourteen people reveal the brutality of Pol Pot's regime, how they managed to survive, and what it took to rebuild their lives afterward. Although the survivors lives are fraught with suffering and times of despair, there is an under current of hope, courage, and resilience that comforts and inspires. Their stories are a testimony to the strength and goodness of the human...

THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO WILDLIFE OF CAMBODIA is the first book of its kind to be illustrated, researched, written and translated entirely by Cambodian middle-school children. It provides an overview of Cambodia's most representative, as well as unique and endangered, wildlife. The book includes over 130 original watercolor paintings of Cambodian mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and seven paintings of Cambodia's unique ecosystems-all created by student illustrators who participated in Art in a Box's Nature in Art Painting Classes in 2015 at the Liger Learning Center. Student...

Valentina DuBasky's modern-day cave-wall paintings of horses, stags and birds explore the correspondences between ancient art and the contemporary imagination. Totemic animals are juxtaposed with petroglyphs and plants that appear and fade within layers of paint to suggest a natural ecosystem in which all life is interdependent. In some of the paintings, a single-image of a horse, stag or bison is pitched on the edge of abstraction and can be read as animal, abstraction, landscape or still life. The paintings are inspired by the artist's travels along the Silk Route in China, India, Central...