Tille

Over the last 15 years, George Shaw has paid painstaking homage to his childhood habitat of Coventry's Tille Hill estate by painting it in enamels more suited to model aeroplane work than the extensive visual vocabularies of urban landscape.

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She loved the picturesque village of Tille, where the archaeologists lived during the excavations.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

For the next five years Shahina spent her summers working at Tille and the rest of the year on short-term contracts with the Museum of London, working on rescue digs in the city.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The following year Shahina applied to work at Tille in time to get on the permit.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

When the excavations were completed and the villagers were forced to move before Tille was covered over by the waters of the Atatürk Dam, Nurcan was inconsolable.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Spontaneously, she picked an individual out of a crowd, a woman temple devotee who had a relationship with Tille.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

“Mr. Sumithapala seems to have taken a special interest in Tille…The attachment between Tille and his teacher became duplicated in the fondness which Gnana and Mr. Sumithapala showed for each other.”

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

She behaved with characteristic trust and affection toward a sister and a schoolteacher known to be favorites of Tille.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Notably, she requested pears from her former favorite sister; pears were not common where Gnana presently lived, but there was a pear tree near the house where Tille lived.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

According to his mother and schoolteacher, Tille behaved effeminately; he liked to sew and paint his fingernails, not the hip male thing to do in Ceylon.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004