The last time I met Sobron was in November 2006, at his daughter Nita’s place in Almere, the Netherlands. I stayed over, chatted with Nita, Bregas and their son Berry for the first time, and a bit with Nita’s daughter…
My father, the Balinese, has several nonsense rhymes that he learned from his childhood days which he has kept reciting forever. He would do one out of the blue: Kaki, Kakiang, Dadong, Dadongkang. And he would do another one to…
The bus was actually a truck with a wooden housing attached to its cargo area at the back. Its seatings were actually wooden benches, all different shapes and colours of them put together in rows. That’s how it got its…
Suddenly I felt very sad. I have been reading Andrew Spielman’s Mosquito: the Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe, sparsely enjoying the amazing stories in it. When I finished reading the book about two weeks ago, I thought it’s really essential…
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…
Here are some pictures from Intimate Distance exhibition, at National Gallery, Jakarta, in August 2007. Have a Cup of Tea / Meet My Dead Grandfather, a collaboration with Gyora Gal Glupczynski, in the background. (Re)Collection of Togetherness was shown as…
After my first broken tooth ever, I thought about how my body works, and how I’m always more interested in fine motoric control and practically disregard the grosser ones. Unbalanced. It would be nice if I would be able to…
I’m having fun, and going mad! When I came in this morning the razor blade with the red thread was down. I wonder whether that was because of the fan (it’s hot today!) or if someone has touched it. Or…
Okay. I’ve done another setup next to the first one, using the cylindrical magnet this time (the one with 9.9 kg pull strength, 8 mm x 25 mm). It works with only 1 magnet, so that’s the strength that I…
The strangest time, heaviest feeling, is one where one side of yours is happy while another side of yours is in sorrow, and after some time trying to discern you found out that those sides were not that far apart….