"When Jim McNalis returns home from his occasional trips to Burma he takes not only memories. Packed away in his suitcase is the very essence of Burma—samples of its soil. Jim McNalis at work in his Florida studio Jim, a talented artist and former Walt Disney art director, adds the soil to clay in his Florida studio and fashions sculptures of the Burmese personalities he most admires. Chief among them is a bust of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. ?The first thing I see every morning as I enter my studio is my cast of the sculpture of Aung San Suu Kyi,? he told The Irrawaddy. ?She seems to stare reflectively through the window and out over the water, reminding me on a daily basis that there is no such thing as neutrality; that if one person?s freedom is denied, the freedom of all people is in jeopardy.?..."