Songs of Memory

Victoria,
I still feel vibrations from the exhibition and meeting you. Restorative. Connecting with humanity outside my diurnal matrix refreshed my soul. When I reflect on the photography, filming, and objets, I continue to be amazed at your stamina, patience, and work.

Dear Victoria,
Your Songs of Memory exhibition at the Jim Thompson Art Center has been a resounding success and a tribute to your passion, your energy, your intellectual honesty and your abiding commitment to preserve for posterity the sacred songs and music of the mountain peoples.  With my grateful thanks and admiration,

Victoria,
Thank you for your presentation at the Siam Society (in tandem with the Songs Exhibition) and a glimpse into the vanishing world of human integrity. I was touched, even shaken with the sense of integrity and timelessness.

Naturally, you are doing work of the very highest quality, work that is so rare. The fact that you are a musician, not an academic, allows you to look at the world without the baggage of years of academic training. Your work deserves to be widely distributed. It is on par with the work done by the best field anthropologists like Jane Goodall.

Dear Victoria,
Beautiful, thought-provoking and absorbing.  What an incredible body of work you have amassed and presented.  Two hours was not enough time to take it all in, but now I can enjoy the book and the photos at my leisure.  Thank you, Victoria, I am proud to call you my friend.