![]() ![]() T: That sounds like an amazing experience. Pieces of Potala Palace, pieces of different Tibetan scenery all built, lots of interiors all built there. Incredible sets built right there in this completely out of the way place in Morocco. ![]() Filming was done in Morocco, we were in Morocco for 3 months. He had made the decision to cast real Tibetans and then I think he realized that there were no real Tibetan actors, especially at the time, this was in 1997, so he casted for people that he thought would fit the roles, and I was lucky enough to be chosen to get that part. So I think, that’s one of the reasons why she took it to him. He’d done a movie on Jesus Christ, so I think Martin Scorsese was someone who’d spent a lot of time thinking about the spiritual conflict of individuals and dealing with issues and things that really tear people apart and how people deal with it from the spiritual perspective. I think primarily because he’s dealt with these issues of spiritual conflict. She was the wife of Harrison Ford, the actor, and she wrote the book and she took it to Martin Scorsese and I’m not sure why she took it to Martin Scorsese as opposed to other directors. L: Well the project was based on a book written by Melissa Mathison, for people who may not know her, she was the late Melissa Mathison. T: Can you tell us about the project, and also how you got involved with it? A lot of people actually broke down and it was incredible. They were getting very emotional during some of these scenes. None of us Tibetans, who took part in that project were really trained actors, so it was really a learning experience but also a very very emotional experience for us also, especially the people even older than myself who were there as extras playing in the background. That was an incredible opportunity, wonderful experience. ![]() T: I was looking at your portfolio, I see that you are not only a painter but also an actor! Lord Chamberlain. My background is I was born in Tibet, in Lhasa, and we left Tibet late ‘50s during the occupation and I lived mainly a couple years in India, but early schooling in Britain and most of the time here in the US since 1974. So I primarily try to paint and read, and am involved in small projects. L: What I do these days, I stopped working. T: Can you tell me a little bit about what you do and your background? I like, I really don’t know the names of too many flowers, but I like wildflowers, perennial wildflowers more than big blooming annuals. Losang Gyatso: Oh my god, I have a garden. It sometimes seems almost impossible to work out what’s going on in Gond paintings, in one of these drawings two women seem to be breaking out of eggs inside a bird while paddling with poles that have the eyes of snakes.Tsering Zangmo: I wanted to start off with some icebreakers: what is your favorite flower? The background is usually plain but the physical forms, the people, plants and animals, are filled out with a huge variety of finely drawn textures composed of dots, circles, hatches and lines that bear a resemblance to the Aboriginal art of Australia. There is no perspective in Gond paintings. There is a soft curvaceous style to all the figures as if one form can morph into another at any moment. People can become trees, animals can be half snake-half bird. They contain people, animals and birds, trees and plants and a common element seems to be the interweaving of these elements of life. Their drawings and paintings are mostly concerned with nature and the mythical stories and the spirits of the world that underpin their culture. Over the last 50 years the Gond have taken to using vivid poster paints and some of the artists are now male. ![]() Like other Indian tribal artists they now also paint and draw on paper and canvas and their best work has been exhibited in international galleries. Traditionally a mother taught her daughter how to create these paintings and they would have used locally made mineral and plant colours. One of the wonderful aspects of Gond drawings and paintings is that nature seems to be in harmony, plants, trees, birds, insects and even humans appear to easily cohabit the same space. They decorate the walls of their houses with images of the world as they see it, with the belief that a good image produces good fortune. The Gond are a large tribal group mostly located in the central Indian state of Madya Pradesh. ![]()
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