Paaj Yeej

Paaj Yeej

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Hmong have always been an agrarian culture that relied on the seasons to provide for their livelihood.  They have a talent and love to grow things in the most mountainous terrain.  This painting reflects a change in their way of life as they use their talents to cultivate poppies for opium production in the late 1800's. 

Paaj Yeej is about the love/hate relationship this plant provided for the Hmong community that enriched some lives while devastating others.