Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine January 2019 | Page 594

Tes usually showcases her own
work in her Philipsburg gallery,
but because September 2017’s
Hurricane Irma had such a huge
impact on the lives of the people
of Sint Maarten, she teamed up
with Ras Mosera and decided to
use this catastrophic
event in their first
joint exhibition in
November 2018.
“The Shock and Awe
we experienced with
the phenomenon
nicknamed” Irma”., our
Lilliputian position
cannot grasp the
magnitude of such
fury. When such
power is unleashed
some of us, after the
fear subside, and we
make an assessment
of the aftermath,
some of us are
inspired, bewildered
and shell shocked. Kids in
particular, seem to express their
fear and grief through visual art
expressions,
Some see a dark monster
looming, pillaging mercilessly,
others see the aftermath as a
moment of defiance.” Tes shared.
The Irma experience was
powerfully interactive, with every
family or individual describing
endless tales of fear, bravery,
survival and loss. Some
religiously think such power
unleashed, is simply retribution
from God. Matured Artist
have tried to captured this un-
capturing phenomena but every
effort is still in a nutshell.
“With this Exhibition: “Irma
Tes and Mosera” Our nutshell
interpretation is just a little light
in this huge experience,” said Tes.
Tes’ style is free almost
reminiscent of the 70’s and 80’s,
like the peace and love trying
to heal mother earth from the
scourge of human’s over activity,
which is the result of powerful
hurricanes like what they
experienced.
She uses all mediums in one
style, resins, virtrail, etc. She said
she decided to come back to
earth, because she almost
“wanted to live in the sky, with
diamonds, I
suppose. Like
Lucy.”
Mosera is
fascinated with
“Irma”, the
sheer unbridled
power is beyond
imagination, the
license to kill,
destroy and
maim with no
accountability to
country or state,
is fathomless.
The awe is in
wanting to pay
homage, almost
romanticizing ,
with the before and after effects
of human interaction/s. He
paints with a free contemporary
approach. In this series mainly
acrylic, collages, gold leaf on
canvas and subtle humor.