Suai Media Space

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Primeiro Agusto, 2008, Jen Solok ou Posta iha Arte, Pintura hosi Yuventudu Suai, Jornal la iha komentar —Editar
[Hatudu hanesan demonstrasaun/pertunjukan eslaida]

Pintura hodi lapis no lapis sera por/oleh Domi.

Domi (iha oin) no Almeida ( iha kotuk) ho lawarik seluk sira.

Ba naton (quandu) Pat Jessen hosi Belun Suai, fo sai lia fuan katak material sira bodik arte rai hela iha Centru Communidade Suai bodik ema nurak (foin sae) sira atu usa, lawarik nain hat responde kedas/imediatemente. Domi, Almeida ho sira nain seluk sira (sira naran hau la hatene). Hau hanoin Domi tan nia mai iha Centru Comunidade sura loron. Domi nian pintura sira maka iha galleria leten nee. Hanesan ita bele hare, pintura sira nee balu copia (tiruan), balu mai hosi nian imaginasaun duuk [Hatudu hanesan demonstrasaun eslaide/pertunjukan slaid]

Pintura hodi lapis ho lapis sera por/oleh Almeida

Hau hanoin Almeida tan razaun hira nee. Primeira razaun, Alberto hosi ita nian belun sira iha Suai dehan ba hau katak nian sobrino ida ba iha Japaun tiha ona hanesan nuudar artista ida, no nia menan hadiah/premiu. Primeira razaun maka nee. Ba oras ami husu ba Sergio artista sira naran—artista sira maka ho interesa—nia katak ba ami kona ba Almeida. Hotu tiha nia lori ami ba Almeida nian uma. Ami hare Almeida nian uma hafutar nakonu hodi desenu/gambar no pintura/lukisan. Pintura ida maka hanesan tebes pintura ida maka hau hare tiha ona iha Sergio nian toba fatin no estudiu. Hotu tiha, ba oras grupu ida hosi ofisian media nian bodik atu halo istoria ida kona ba Suai hanesan cidade arte ida, sira mos ba hasoru Almeida. Iha leten nee pintura sira maka nia halo iha Centru Comdeunida

Iha kraik nee koleksaun hosi pintura maka lawarik mane sira (naran la iha) halo.

Tetun Language

[Note: Click on a photo to get the ‘gallery’ to pop up then scroll through the gallery using the ‘Next’ and ‘Back’ buttons near the top on the sides.]

Pencil and crayon drawings by Domi.

Domi (foreground) and Almeida (back) with other kids (checking back to get other names)

When Pat Jessen from the Friends of Suai, put out the word there would be art materials available in the Suai Community Centre every afternoon for local youth to use, about four kids responded. Domi, Almeida and a couple of others whose names I didn’t get. I remember Domi because he came every day. That is Domi’s work in the gallery above. As you can see some of it is copy work and some from his imagination.

Pencil and crayon drawings by Almeida

I remember Almeida for a few reasons. The first reason is that Alberto one of our friends in Suai told us his nephew had been to Japan as an artist and won a prize. The second is that when we asked Sergio for the names of some artists who might be interested he told us about Almeida and took us to his home where we found it covered with his drawings and paintings. With one that was very similar to a picture I had seen in Sergio’s bedroom/studio. Then, when a group of media workshop students decided to do a story about Suai as an art city they also went to see Almeida. Above are the drawings he did at the Community Centre.

Below is a collection of pencil drawings by the unnamed boys.

Unsigned drawings