Sergio da Costa’s bedroom is also his studio and when he was short of materials he painted on his walls. On the exterior walls of the house Disney characters  but inside more political art was the order of the day. It would have been dangerous to have this on his bedroom wall, but not as dangerous as in public. I don’t know when it was painted. I filmed it in 2000. This work is a telling comment on his experience of Pancasila. According to the wikipedia Religion is stated as the first principle of the State ideology of Indonesia.

Perhaps the most interesting are ‘East Timor‘ and ‘Habelun ho Lafaek‘ that provide interesting global and mythological perspectives on the island of East Timor. (see cultural notes on crocodile myth) Once again we find women in the landscape and just one man who could be Xanana in ‘Director Liberty’ overlooking a devastated landscape covered with bodies and guns while a young man holds up the Timorese flag. Other interesting landscape works are in the Bundoora Exhibition and Paintings on Tais.

All Photographs courtesy Arte Moris the Free Art School in Dili and thanks to the Artists.

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All Photographs Courtesy Arte Moris the Free Art School in Dili – and thanks to the artists.

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All Photographs Courtesy Arte Moris Free Art School Dili and thanks to the artists.

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