“But I also said, ‘Myuran, what are you doing? Are you just going to sit around and wait for this? You’ve got nothing else to do, go back to work and start making paintings.'”
So he did.
In the last week or so, Sukumaran has thrown himself into his painting and the prison art classes he set up and leads five days a week.
He knows that in the days or weeks ahead, he could be led out of his cell with Andrew Chan, his co-conspirator in a failed 2005 drug plot, blindfolded and shot by an Indonesian firing squad.
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On Thursday night, a candlelight vigil organized by Quilty will be held in Sydney’s Martin Place as a show of support for the two prisoners. Musicians will perform in a concert called “Music for Mercy.”
Quilty said it’s not an attempt to convince the Indonesian authorities to spare them — “that’s out of my hands” — but a personal tribute to his friend, and to show Sukumaran that he and Chan are not alone.
“It seemed like there was a very dark inevitability about what was going to happen to Myuran. And I thought, what can I do?”
“I thought I can actually show the boys that there are people who care for them, just to give them a sense of dignity, I guess.”
