The “original” diary and its exploratory record recedes further from imaginative and prescient and the connection to the pictures turns into much more unstable, but Tors suggests that the damage imperial encounters remain. The feminine translator in The Parrot and the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria points to the stealth feminism operating via Tors’ artwork and her attention to the long histories of depriving girls entry to the voice of authority. Yogyakarta, known as house by artists who come from all over Indonesia, is today recognised internationally as a creative centre within the Southeast Asian area. Kow arrived in Yogyakarta sometime around …