In 2014 I had the opportunity to participate in a residency program initiated by Bumi Pemuda Rahayu located in Muntuk Village, Dlingo Gunungkidul, DIY. The experience of living and working for two months in that place led me to look back at the relationship between humans and nature around where we live. One of them is my interest in gemstones as a child, reappeared when I visited the Oyo River which is located not far from where I resided, the pleasure of looking for stones in this river is what I then want to tell and convey through this work.
I then tried to simulate this experience in an installation containing a photo of the Oyo River landscape from above, and placed polished found stones on the surface of the photo. On the side I also included a magnifying glass that is usually used to see the details of the gemstones, on the bottom of the table I put stones that have not been processed or polished. This installation is expected to invite the audience to imagine the landscape not only from a wide perspective, but can also see microscopically such as the fibers found in natural stones.
In 2024 I was invited to participate in the Indonesia Bertutur event. It so happened that the theme carried was connected to this work, after discussing it with the exhibition curator, and then I remade this work again on a larger scale. Like when it was first presented, visitors to the exhibition can touch, and see in detail the stones presented in this work. So the audience can feel a complete bodily experience, like when I was looking for the stone in the river.
Photograph Instalation, 2014,2024
