Dirty Pretty Things

THE background of that Indonesian archipelago painting is rather unusual: a kneeling woman staring at the sun on her right side and the moon to her left. At the central part of her body, emerges the head of a bird that looks like the garuda. The painter, 40-year-old Dina Mahardika, called this painting Negeri Bokong (The Butt Country). It is one of so many paintings lying around or hanging on the walls of Dina’s Wong Sinting gallery in Makassar

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