Code: K042

Title: In the Kos

Size: 100 x 130 - Oil on canvas.

Still in the collection of the artist.

Description:

This is one of the paintings and situations that has a special place in the cathedral of my heart because… because the girls who living here they all coming from Java, all from very poor families and believe me there are in Indonesia around 200 million lovely, wonderful poor families. These girls coming to Bali to work and make money to send to their families in Java – Kalimantan – Lombok – etc. They planning when they come to Bali to work in a hotel or in a art shop but the reality is that 90 percent of them work in a café and enjoy the men visitors there, foreigners and locals. The money what they send every week home is mostly used for the needs of the rest of the family, school money for the younger children, food and housekeeping and cost for health service.

You can also give this girls very easy another name but if you do that you are very short minded. This are absolutely very nice girls who have no other choice. They try to make from their daily life an enjoyable life but they have the same dreams as young people in the rest of the world. I love them and I treat them with respect and care. And talking about care of course you have to be careful but also think…. He who is without sin throws the first stone.

Yes, a lot of this girls want to marry with a foreigner because they are already use to them end the foreigner talks a lot to them also and the foreigner deals most of the time with the – in this situation with the Pygmalion feeling…. To say it more popular remember the story of My Fair Lady. Also this girls having a good heart, are dedicated and taking care very much….. yes they are also very good in cooking and a lot of other things.