Thursday, June 30, 2022

Colors of the Night

My book of Expressionist Style paintings from the Bangkok Night, COLORS OF THE NIGHT, now available as quality paperback or e-book on Amazon dot com..............
Bangkok Soi Dog #1
Ladyboy Aree
Orange Flower
Blond Gogo Dancer
Blond Ladyboy
The Artist with just published "Navigating the Bangkok Noir"
Blue Flowers
Spirit House Japanese Karaoke
Soi Cowboy
Victor Bout
Sunflowers
Ratchada Fishbowl
Red Mountain Flowers
Four Purple Flowers
Soi Cowboy painting as cover of "The Vincent Calvino's Reader's Guide"
Koi Gallery Sukhumvit 31 Show
Midnite Bar Koi Gallery Show
Midnite Bar painting as cover of "Navigating the Bangkok Noir" book
Cover of Christopher G. Moore's novel "The Corruptionist"

https://www.amazon.com/Colors-Night-Chris-Coles/dp/179747880X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1658675540&sr=1-1






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Monday, January 04, 2016

Turquoise Ladyboy on Soi Bin Laden in the Bangkok Night..........

"Turquoise Ladyboy on Soi Bin Laden in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles


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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Farang Ladyboy Rocking Out Lucifer DIsko Walking Street Pattaya................

"Farang Ladyboy Rocking Out Lucifer DIsko Walking Street Pattaya" - Chris Coles


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Ladyboy Prostitute 2nd Floor Nana Plaza Bangkok Night............

"Ladyboy Prostitute 2nd Floor Nana Plaza Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles


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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Ladyboy Love in the Bangkok Night......

"Ladyboy Love in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles


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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Ladyboy Massage Lower Suk in the Bangkok Night.....

Ladyboy Massage Lower Suk in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles


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Monday, January 26, 2015

Khmer Ladyboy at Vibe After Hours Club in the Phnom Pehn Night.....

"Khmer Ladyboy at Vibe After Hours Club in the Phnom Pehn Night" - Chris Coles


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Monday, December 08, 2014

Ladyboy Agogo Walking Street Pattaya............

"Ladyboy Agogo Walking Street Pattaya" - Chris Coles

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Hello Girl Walking Street Pattaya..............

"Hello Girl Walking Street Pattaya" - Chris Coles

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Ladyboy Nana Hotel Disco 3AM

"Ladyboy Nana Hotel Disco 3AM" - Chris Coles
 

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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Ladyboy Mamasan Bangkok Private Member Club

"Ladyboy Mamasan Bangkok Private Member Club" - Chris Coles

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

New Age Buddhist Guy in the Bangkok Night

"New Age Buddhist Guy in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles
He's on a spiritual quest....for purity, serenity, harmony....seeking the truths left behind by the Buddha.....headed for a meditation retreat near Chiang Mai.......in Thailand, the world's most Buddhist country.....herbal colonics, a strict vegetarian diet and five hours a day of chanting.....if only the Thai massage girl hadn't turned out to be a ladyboy......

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Nana Plaza Ladyboy in the Bangkok Night

"Nana Plaza Ladyboy in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles
Nana Plaza in the Bangkok Night is a world vortex of ladyboys....hundreds and hundreds of ladyboys....who are their customers and where are they from and what do they think they want.....

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

L.A. Art Collector and his ladyboy girlfriend at Bangkok Club

LA Art Collector & his Ladyboy Girlfriend at Bangkok Club - Chris Coles

.......in L.A., he's a family man and City Father, he pays out millions of dollars for famous paintings and announces donations to major museums.......but in the Bangkok Night, he's chasing ladyboys, obsessed with their elliptical ambiguity, the feeling of depravity, taking pleasure as he pleases........

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Bangkok Ladyboy Obession Bar Nana Plaza

Bangkok Ladyboy Obession Bar Nana Plaza - Chris Coles

..........every night, night after night, she sits in Nana Plaza's Obession Bar, waiting for her clients, ongoing and unknown, a master of illusion and desire, ferocious, cunning, hauntingly beautiful, a victim of circumstance and mis-construed re-incarnation, open to the world and totally at risk, doomed, too many drugs and hormones, too much plastic surgery, a predator in the Bangkok Night, ready to accept the projections of others and her own complicated Karma.................

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Bangkok Ladyboy

Bangkok Ladyboy Pim - Chris Coles/2007

There 's an intensity in Bangkok ladyboys, a fire burning inside. They are from every region of Thailand, drawn to Bangkok to live invented lives according to how they imagine they are. No matter how wacky they may sometimes seem, they are following their dreams and desires.


Ladyboy Temptation Bar Nana - Chris Coles/2007

No one knows how many ladyboys there are in in Bangkok but there must be at least several hundred thousand. Called Kathoey in Thai, they are everywhere in the world of the Bangkok Night. Sometimes in the overt and flashy ladyboy revues favored by the busloads of Taiwanese and mainland Chinese, dressed up as Las Vegas showgirls, kind of obvious, exaggerated and fun.

Bangkok Ladyboy Pim 2 - Chris Coles/2007

Sometimes they're working in the go-go bars of Nana Plaza and Patpong, both overtly and disguised, aggressive and quiet, muscular and masculine as well as petite, soft and feminine, available for a kinky night out to men and women tourists from Asia, Europe, India, the Arab states and North and South America. They are also in the streets and parks, servicing the lowest and roughest end of the Bangkok Night.

Patpong Ladyboy - Chris Coles/2007

More or less accepted as an in-between or Third Sex by Thais, there is talk of building a special ladyboy prison in order to clear up the confusion as to which prison ladyboy criminals should be sent, depending if they are pre-op or post-op, still equipped or physically altered. The Operation is so common in Bangkok, there are ads with price lists and special discounts in the leading newspapers. Tourists from all over the world who want the Operation come to Bangkok for the expertise of the surgeons as well as the high standard of the hospitals and relatively low price.

Los Angeles Real Estate Lawyer in Bangkok Ladyboy Bar - Chris Coles/2007

But all of that is the iceberg that we see. Beneath the surface, hidden from view, there are ladyboys working in every strata of the Bangkok world, banks, offices, hotels, restaurants, quiet bars and small KTV's, Isan music places, department stores, television, film, music, manufacturing, marketing, fashion and textiles. Some are even married to ordinary Thai men and live mundane suburban lives without their neighbors having a clue.

Two Ladyboys CM2 Club - Chris Coles/2007

The history of ladyboys goes back thousands of years, in every culture and country. Ladyboy gods can be found in India, Ancient Greece, Africa and Asia. The ambiguity of the hermaphrodite being, half-woman, half-man, seems to arouse universal curiosity and interest. Some say that even the Mona Lisa was a ladyboy, one of the many transvestite hookers that Leonardo da Vinci pulled off the streets near his studio to use as models. Perhaps that is the key to her mysterious smile.



Ladyboy at Spasso Bar Bangkok - Chris Coles/2007

Ladyboys have much to teach is about ambiguity and desire, surface appearance and multi-layered realities, the role of illusions and visual signals, the impossibility of certainty and what it is to follow a dream. Trying to paint them is to enter a world full of mirrors, confusing and infinite, sometimes ugly and sometimes full of a strange and poignant beauty.

Bangkok Ladyboy Natalie - Chris Coles/2007

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