Imants Tiller and the Diaspora Triology

Diaspora Trilogy is the story of Tillers’ family’s history; Diaspora is the introduction to it. Questions of his identity and his past, center and periphery can be found all over Diaspora, because these were the biggest issues to Tillers. I believe that Tillers being an Australian-born child of Latvian immigrants is experiencing lost of self across the two cultures, and he aims to find his complete identity through creating the Diaspora Trilogy.

Diaspora was completed in 1992, the first of the Diaspora trilogy, made up of 288 canvas boards in the shades of brown, red, white and black. There are 48 paintings, each formed by 6 panels. The paintings are arranged together to form the large Diaspora. It’s compiled of numbers, roman numerals, use of metaphors and biblical quotations.

‘You Must Face the Fact’, ‘I and thou

Some topics in this essay:
Diaspora Tillers, Izkliede Paradiso, World War, Painting Speak, Colin McCahon’s, Diaspora Trilogy, Trilogy Diaspora, Colin McCahon, Tillers’ Latvian, War Tillers, world war, diaspora trilogy, section diaspora, izkliede paradiso, trilogy diaspora, diaspora trilogy diaspora, roman numerals, colin mccahon’s ‘rocks, canvas boards, sky’ series, mccahon’s ‘rocks sky’, history diaspora, 3 6-panel, references izkliede paradiso, textual references izkliede,