Tiger in the Sky Collection |
Peace and Passion
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61 x 51 cms |
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Images of Thai Buddhist culture.
"The highlight however was the dancing. I was fascinated and captivated the costumes and headresses were brilliant with gold and embroidery, and fine latticework. It is, like Thai dancing, quite formal, and uses the hands with fingers bent back in a similar way. But the girls adopt a strange posture their spines arched and knees bent, and move their eyes, necks, hands in strange staccato movements, all perfectly co-ordinated, sometimes shaking and shivering one part of the body, a shoulder, a leg, to produce an entrancing and primitive puppet like effect. It is not really sensual or sexual; the girls are too much like dolls."
