{"id":519,"date":"2008-08-06T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suaimediaspace.org\/friends-of-suai-port-phillip\/2008\/08\/06\/sergios-first-commissions-from-pt-phillip\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T04:27:18","slug":"sergios-first-commissions-from-pt-phillip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suaimediaspace.org\/friends-of-suai-port-phillip\/2008\/08\/06\/sergios-first-commissions-from-pt-phillip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio’s first commissions from Port Phillip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tetun version<\/a>
\nThe ‘bush telegraph’ in Suai works like a dream. I think we had been there a day when Sergio turned up at the Community Centre. He had with him a huge painting of a traditional house of Lautem (Los Palos) that he was hoping to sell. It was over a metre high and about .75 of a metre wide, but that wasn’t the reason none of us bought it. We are more interested in the traditional culture of Cova Lima. Lautem is in the far East of East Timor in the “head of the crocodile” if you like. The traditional house of Lautem has become an international symbol of Traditional Timorese Architecture and I guessed that is why Sergio painted that particular style. The fact that it was so big also made it more expensive and more difficult to find a place for it in ones home. This is a photo of it taken by Desleigh Kent ( from the Friends of Suai), who was there, with some other paintings he brought sitting over the base of it.<\/p>\n

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Pat Jessen was impressed by his work however and commissioned him to do a painting of an old man holding a rooster as it was depicted in the foreground of the Lautem painting.<\/p>\n

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Pat Jessen<\/strong> (‘Friends of Suai’ Co-ordinator Pt Phillip), Simao Barretto<\/strong> (‘Friends of Suai Co-ordinator’ in Suai) translating for Sergio (foreground and his friend).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pat is discussing her commission and asking Sergio of he would do some small portraits of Suai youth<\/a> for an exhibition to be held in St Kilda and run some art classes for other young people in Suai.<\/p>\n

Below: Sergio working on Pat’s commission. (<\/strong>Photograph by YoMaTre members<\/em>)
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The finished painting.<\/strong>
\nDesleigh was impressed and commissioned one for herself. She gave sergio a photograph of an old woman with a young woman she had taken in Suai Loro that week.
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Desleigh, Pat and Annie Sloman <\/strong>checking out the finished work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tetun version
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