A Woman in a Fish Hook Dress
Posted by Stuart at 06:20 PM on July 12, 2006In October of 2003, Piyawat and I made a road trip to Kuala Lumphur, Malaysia. Over the course of two weeks, we put almost exactly 4-megameters on his Honda City. (That's about 2,500 miles, but it's much more fun to say "megameter".)
One of the coolest spots we visited was Wat Suan Mokkhaphalaram in Nakorn Si Thammarat. In one room of the temple complex, there was an amazing collection of paintings from all kinds of different religious traditions: Buddhist, Christian, Taoist, etc.
Last December, someone found my website and emailed me the following:
I have been searching for close to three years now (on and off, obviously - I'm not possessed ;) for an image of a painting in that temple that I read about in a book about feminist perspectives on Buddhism:"At Wat Suan Mokkh, in Thailand, there's a painting of a sexy lady, her miniskirt adorned with scary barbed hooks as she slyly displays a fishing rod: she's warning of dangerous female intentions."
Do you possibly have a picture of this mural? Would you know where I could find an image of this mural?
This email has stuck in my head all this time, and when I heard a friend of mine was visiting the temple, I asked her to take a picture of the woman with the fish hook dress. She did, and sent it to me. Now, my quest is complete and I can present to you a "warning of dangerous female intentions."
