The next three paintings were done yesterday when the weather was kind of rainy. Timor-Leste is on the east part of an island way north of Australia, the other half of the island belongs to Indonesia although there is a small enclave there. Collisions between the Eurasian and Australian continental plates is what drives the formation of islands in this region. Its a volcanic area with activity. You see in the painting the interesting volcanic rocks crusty black-brown embedded with various coloured smaller rocks inside. Bits and pieces were strewn about the beige sand. Timor-Leste had a lot of trouble getting its independence, and the local indigenous people were persecuted and fled as refugees. Due to the Portuguese influence from the colonial times, the people of Timor-Leste are majority Catholic although they speak a local language not Portuguese so much. A student who was in my laboratory was from this area, she said people were extremely conservative and Catholic, although some of the old indigenous ways are still a part of the culture.
World Inspired Landscapes: Timor-Leste, watercolour 7 x 10" hot press, April 2025
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