How prison life honed Htein Lin?s skills as a performance artist... "Silence enveloped the room as about 30 people watched a man in a white robe meditating before them. Beside him, tubes of oil paint lay o?n a mat. The man looked around and raised his hands as if he were a captive touching an invisible wall. He then began to pour red paint o?n the mat, his movements becoming faster and more forceful. Green paint followed the red, and his movements became calmer. Using his hands and feet, he painted the mat, finally taking off his outer robe and laying himself o?n it, o?n the colored surface. The painted mat, the robe and the artist himself were fused into o?ne—in a creation called ?Love and Anger? by Htein Lin, a pioneer of performance art in Burma..."