Word: batik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
...start, Statsinger's explorations were in odd techniques. As a student, she made hundreds of "photograms" by arranging bits of string and other objects on sheets of film, exposing the film to the light, and printing the abstract result. She also learned the ancient craft of designing batik, the stuff sarongs are made of. Echoes of the South Seas. The Stat-singer drawings on exhibition last week seemed as relaxed in composition as her "photograms" had been, and the floating shapes that filled them echoed, abstractly, carved idols and amulets of the South Seas. But the atmosphere...