was a period when zacchaeus on the meter you know i too am actually did not teach figure drawing because of the influence of a politicized islam at the school. when i was a student one of the assignments we have. for our history was. a painting by an old master. the painting that i chose to copy was it was a cross from across the pacific ocean. was amusing in the beginning you know because it s such a horrid notion. i was always intrigued. i mean.
religiously me doesn t matter whether it s a strategy your buddhism or hinduism. his journey all these excavations have taken him into a part of both the military and southeast asian pop past that today he s very contentious which is basically the very vibrant and still very vital previous let me pass influenced by hinduism and buddhism he s painting a buddha hates for example the malays didn t go. read off the air please allow me to be should be rationalized and there was a process of a metamorphosis in which such views i believe in very nicely with more mystical trends in this life and the millions were mystics. and that has been the experience of islam for all the essentially up to very recent times in the past forty or fifty
the current series i m working on. is. dale from the primordial god and. you have that thing within you that what i mentioned is. doing things beautifully. but then you have the other side of you you know the dark side. the more. disturbing aspects of your personality that has to come out to be in islam you know like in bali good and evil six together. both are creatures of god. i see him within a continuum. of artists who carry this primordial spirit that is very particular to this region when he paints he actually invokes an entire landscape of this of this place that has also very strong historical resonances you
years. the challenge of. puta technical islam has been a more recent one. the rise of wahhabi islam terrorism al qaeda islam nine eleven ism you know bush reactionism all these kinds of things we understand islam within that within that because of islam has. so many dimensions. in which people can operate in gravity and our it is our reductionist approach not just by non muslims but increasingly by muslims that islam is exclusively and it s this aspect of islamic law what can and cannot be done dominate everything from briggs i m going. back to the school where i found someone slashed the three things. there was
a great deal in in islam the nature of sexuality which is then related to the nature of being all of these can be findings with respect to be sure and at heart i think he s going to see if you see painter. the reason he s not wearing any clothes is because i want him to be in this mess for the state so you do come i would fight him whether. he s wearing western clothes always been closer or whether he saw this resort know who he is so universal. it was something totally against islam. but then the works will never man to be about. it off the system it has elements of that but it was never meant to be a role to go or sexually explicit. when our first thought of a new series in a. response was you know some people think i m gay he. was just five being