Monday, October 26, 2015
27 October 2015: Nothing at Mertasari this morning but extreme beauty: toddlers paDdle, sampans bob. I leave tonight for Doha, to visit i m pei's islamic art museum. I am haunted by a video i saw yesterday of a man being burned to death in the street in Aceh. He was kicked in the face as he struggled to get up. A crowd of young men watched. The video had the potency of the video of corpses being off-loaded in Auschwitz. I want to scream and do something. I will henceforth desist from painting the Sharia police presence in Aceh as light.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
15 October 2015: Rapture, rapture messianic sunrise: two cheap arab chubs from Dubai have three fisherman bailed up in the shallows, taking syrupy photos against the choral symphonic sky. Eventually the grandad in the rented sampan and the fishermen saunter off because they haven't been paid. " Gus, gus, gus' the arab screams. "Poison their heads (cetikang nas'ne)'', I tell the fishermen, and I then take my own free pic he he
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