Priceless tais

November 8, 2008

The tais exhibition on display at the Suai Media Space is like fireworks on textile. I highly recommend it. Also fascinating to see how much exchange and influence there is from other neighboring islands. The one featured above is a creation of Veronica Martins of Kamenassa, Suai, now in the collection of Friends of Suai.

Kamenassa was the center of Timor’s greatest rebellion against the Portuguese, in the 1720s.

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  1. The garden of earthly delights « Return to Rai Ketak Says:

    November 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    [...] parts of the sometimes grotesque landscape. (For example, Veronica Martins’ luminous tais pictured below. Or the NGO Forum’s forceful broadside addressed to the Prime Minister and his coalition [...]


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