insomniac.

Maybe this is not jetlag. Maybe it’s just my childhood coming back to me. I should try to count all the stars. But I counted them all already, and I still couldn’t sleep. My parents, when I was a child,…

peck.

I have to pack, six-pack, but I’m sick of pecking so I’d rather pick sex.

by bus.

By bus, Paris was surprising. Take this: This is where Napoleon was buried, Nita told me. She was sitting in front of me, facing me. I looked out the window; I saw a mausoleum-like square building, quite a nice one,…

voice.

Test, one, two, three. This is much easier typed than said. I lost my voice after talking too much about my work. Amsterdam, Groningen, Eindhoven, you name it. So today is a reflection day. I only do test, one, two,…

clean.

We separated the colours. I only had one white and a few colours, so we decided to share. We put them in washing machine six, washing machine five, washing machine four. Washing machine six for whites, because it rhymes at…

cf.

Yeah, Clermont-Ferrand was inspiring. With an average of 120,000 audience each year, being with Cannes etc in the top list of film festivals with the most audience in the whole world, how can it be not? There’s no 1 director,…

great wall.

great wall.

Great Wallpaper series, installation view at Cemeti Art House. Photography: Sari Handayani.

wanton.

The Wanton is an indecent creature with no loyalty. Unidentified, it binds to nothing, crosses everything. It knows no nationality and all its nationalities. It fulfills the requirements to acquire green cards, as many as possible, jumping jolly from one…

accidents.

The worst thing about accidents is this: they always happen too suddenly. You walk slowly around a corner, and out come this motorbike with a rear box full of pizza hitting you on your head. Yes, you did walk on…

packing.

Packing now, after 3 months in Jogja. In the exhibition I showed Invasion (was Almost Cut when still in progress), Great Wallpaper No. 211/1940, Great Wallpaper No. 12/2602, Great Wallpaper No. 470/I/Sbki/67, (Re)Collection of Togetherness – Stage 2 which included…