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“My entire source of inspiration has been this Island. Traveling all over I have been overwhelmed by its wonder, inspired by its colour. Design emerges from one’s daily life; it has for me.” I quote Barbara Sansoni from an interview with her just prior to an exhibition of her abstract art which was billed: “Celebrating […]
10 שנים אחרי שהוגש כפרויקט שאפתני בתחרות אדריכלים, הושלם המבנה יוצא הדופן שהפך למלון Six Senses שחרות. חפור בקרקע, מחופה באבן מקומית, משובץ יצירות אמנות ומרוהט בלעדית בעץ ממוחזר - מה שאמור היה להיות צעקה אדריכלית מגלומנית, מתגלה כמבנה עדין שמשחק עם המשוטטים בו משחק מרענן של גילוי והסתרה
Laki Senanayake (1937-2021)
Laki is seated on a black, high-backed, padded executive swivel chair. He is bare-bodied, in a bright red sarong, dappled sunlight catching his white beard. On the table in front of him is a pair of binoculars, which he picks up frequently to look at the birds in the trees around the pond that he overlooks from a raised open-air platform. Esoteric avant garde music is playing from speakers hidden in the trees.
And everywhere you look, art. Mostly sculpture. A bronze wild boar at the water’s edge. An other-wordly ‘rain tree’ in the middle of the water. A horse on the other side of the pond. A golden sun high up in a tree. An owl looming from the roof. More animals appearing the longer you look. A leopard adorned with geometric shapes in gold and green. A rhinoceros perched on a rock. A tiger attacking a deer in the trees. A unicorn, a hornbill, an emu. The water monitor in the undergrowth turns out to be real. Laki is working on a sculpture right no
The Israeli ambassador in Colombo,
Yitzhak Navon, condemned Sri Lanka’s hobnobbing with Arab terrorist organizations that were plotting to exterminate the State of Israel. Yet two months after Navon made this statement, in a clear indication of the PLO’s success at delegitimizing Israel outside the Middle East, Bandaranaike severed diplomatic ties with Israel on the grounds that it had purportedly violated UN Security Council Resolution 242. Her decision was highly praised by Arab leaders as a bold act made on behalf of the cause of Palestinian “liberation.”
Ties between Israel and Sri Lanka were restored under Sri Lanka’s first executive president, Junius Richard Jayewardene, when the country began to suffer from terrorism committed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1977. Cabinet minister Lalith Athulathmudali, who had worked as a law lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; as well as Jayewardene’s son, Ravi Jayewardene, were determined that Sri L