weight.

I thought that if I would use a kite anyway for Almost Cut, the kite has to be extremely light. Perhaps made from dried petals?

One of the original idea was to make the kite using paper made out of birth certificates. But I really am not certain about this yet, because the birth certificates were originally for another project, Paper Tree (working title).

Paper Tree was going to illustrate the shifts of political power in one geographical area. It’s based on the fact that – even though I, my mother, and my grandmother were all born in the geographical area currently known as Indonesia – my birth certificate was issued by the Indonesian government, my mother’s was by the then-current Japanese government (it even uses Japanese dates instead of the commonly used AD dates) and my grandmother’s was by the then-current Dutch government (and in Dutch as well).

Of course all the ideas in my works now are quite interrelated – they are all about the same things anyway. It’s just quite hard to know where one ends and where the other one begins. Like the map in (Re)Collection of Togetherness – now I start to feel that perhaps it belongs to another project, perhaps still somehow related to the passports, but a different one.

Anyway. My scabs are peeling off. I’ve just realized that my falling off actually left a tiny indented mark on the leftmost side of my lip. The invisibility of wounds, hah.

In a few days I will be starting my residency at Cemeti Art House – looking forward to that, where I can think more of things.