quickie.
This is usually ready in 20 minutes. Put rice in a pot, with enough water. You can measure how much water is enough by putting your index finger on top of the rice (pointing to the rice). The water should…
nuts.
I am nuts. I am nuts. Bla bla nuts and I am nuts. * Ah wie gut dass nie Mann weiss, dass ich ryth-mus gi-ta-rist bin. * What if everything in your life is decided by other people? Like, forever?…
next.
Great Wallpaper series was conceived during the Cemeti residency. My next plan is to make the fourth in the series with video. I have noticed how during the process of doing the murals, the OHP projection would also fall on…
name.
I envy Ed McGowin, who changed his name twelve times, perhaps without hesitation, or with such a strong determination that nothing could have stood in his way. I don’t know which of the conditions was true for him, but if…
butter.
When you have butterflies in your stomach, do you laugh to let them all out? Do you eat to push them deep in? Do you sing to calm them down low? Do you pray so they hear your say? Do…
the most international artist in the universe.
If I would have been born exactly where I was born — approximately 4400 kilometres away from where I currently reside — but 100 years before, people might have called me a Chinese Dutch East Indian. If I would have been born…
stage 2.
(Re)Collection of Togetherness – stage 2: 83 mosquito-passports shown with Pulang – draft 3. And sometimes, somehow, it could feel very, very lonely. Photography by Sari Handayani, at Cemeti Art House, January 2008.
red.
Since a while ago I have begun to notice that whenever I don’t sleep, my eyes became reddish. I don’t think this has ever happened before. Maybe it’s what they call aging.
awake.
I’m still awake. In a few hours from now, I will be awake for more at least more than 24 hours already. I don’t really know for sure how many hours. That’s exactly what happens when you can’t sleep: you…
bruce.
Williams Alfarouk from Sierra Leone has just spammed me an email. He said that he’s writing me from Rep of Cote d’Ivoire where he has been taking refuge after the brutal war and Murder of his parents by the rebels…