Beauty Behind the Flame
Group Exhibition
Curated by Rifky Effendy
Bentara Budaya Jakarta
2006
Sound of Music
Mixed media Installation
Stoneware ceramic, dried wheat straw, fishing line, wood
Hand manual pinch
2006
What life would be without music. Every time we hear various of sounds: water, wind, bird, tree, people....and vehicles, machines, etc.
Nature's sounds are very beautiful....but sounds produced by man made objects create sound pollution.
Then we have to be creative to mix and match the various sounds, create the music. Just be wise in life.
Mixed media Installation
Stoneware ceramic, dried wheat straw, fishing line, wood
Hand manual pinch
2006
What life would be without music. Every time we hear various of sounds: water, wind, bird, tree, people....and vehicles, machines, etc.
Nature's sounds are very beautiful....but sounds produced by man made objects create sound pollution.
Then we have to be creative to mix and match the various sounds, create the music. Just be wise in life.
Flip up your wings and fly
Ceramic stoneware, iron hanger, wire, glazed
Hand manual slab
2006
Flip up your wings and fly. Like birds and butterflies who flip up their wings freely to fly up high. Everybody in this earth is a social creature and an individual. As a social human being, people need friends, companies, help each other, tolerate, compromise. But then they have the right as an individual too. People need to be exist as they want to be. As an individual, they are free to express their opinions, ideas, as unique as they want to be.
It would be better if we have our own dreams, and we have courage to fight and achieve that dreams. You will become an ordinary people when you have no dreams, and the worst you will be nothing if you have no courage to fight your dreams. I’ve learnt that God created us to become a special person with different talent and character. The dream is a gift, and to have courage to achieve it, is a choice. Courage is not about loosing your fear, but a choice to act even though you are afraid. So what are you waiting for? Just FLIP UP YOUR WINGS AND FLY!!!
Passion
Ceramic stoneware, wood burn into charcoal
Hand manual pinch
2005
“PASSION”, means a very strong feeling about a subject or person. It will refer to an intense desire and attraction. For example if you have a dream and you passionate to achieve it, then everything you do will lead you to achieve your dream. You will have strong spirit and never give up, event though suffering is part of your experience when you fight your dream. We can learn from Jesus Christ who passionate to his believes to God, and it leads him to the Holy Crucifixion.
An artist can have passion for their art. We can see from their pure and original art. A passionate artist will work hard to make wonderful and qualified objects. Such artist will sacrifice anything to implement their creative idea of art.
Ceramic stoneware, wood burn into charcoal
Hand manual pinch
2005
“PASSION”, means a very strong feeling about a subject or person. It will refer to an intense desire and attraction. For example if you have a dream and you passionate to achieve it, then everything you do will lead you to achieve your dream. You will have strong spirit and never give up, event though suffering is part of your experience when you fight your dream. We can learn from Jesus Christ who passionate to his believes to God, and it leads him to the Holy Crucifixion.
An artist can have passion for their art. We can see from their pure and original art. A passionate artist will work hard to make wonderful and qualified objects. Such artist will sacrifice anything to implement their creative idea of art.
Love, Lust, Hope, Desire
Ceramic stoneware, dried leaves, candles
Hand manual pinch
2006
Love, lust, hope, desire, are common human feelings that make people unique and alive. In order to have meaningful life, we have to experience such feelings which are gifts from God. Imagine if you don’t have love, or you can not feel love. How would life be? It would be empty. Love is such an emotional experience which leads us to be happy, full of spirit, but love can be hurt too, when you damped by someone you love. When you love someone deeply, it will be difficult to differentiate with lust. You have strong attraction to someone, then you feel that you want him or her, so it become lust. But lust actually is a passionate sexual desire to someone, and this feelings last in short time, it is temporary. In contrary when lust becomes love, you will feel attached to someone, and this will build longer intimate relationship. By the time you feel attached to someone, it would be difficult for you to release someone you love. You will be happy when you get love in return. But when you have to wait for love, as long as you have passion to someone, then there will always hope. When you get it, you stop hoping, but when the situation is hopeless, then the passionate feeling will leads you to desire. These emotional experiences lead people to feel alive. Life will be so colorful when you can feel those Love, Lust, Hope, Desire. They all such great gifts from God.
Ceramic stoneware, dried leaves, candles
Hand manual pinch
2006
Love, lust, hope, desire, are common human feelings that make people unique and alive. In order to have meaningful life, we have to experience such feelings which are gifts from God. Imagine if you don’t have love, or you can not feel love. How would life be? It would be empty. Love is such an emotional experience which leads us to be happy, full of spirit, but love can be hurt too, when you damped by someone you love. When you love someone deeply, it will be difficult to differentiate with lust. You have strong attraction to someone, then you feel that you want him or her, so it become lust. But lust actually is a passionate sexual desire to someone, and this feelings last in short time, it is temporary. In contrary when lust becomes love, you will feel attached to someone, and this will build longer intimate relationship. By the time you feel attached to someone, it would be difficult for you to release someone you love. You will be happy when you get love in return. But when you have to wait for love, as long as you have passion to someone, then there will always hope. When you get it, you stop hoping, but when the situation is hopeless, then the passionate feeling will leads you to desire. These emotional experiences lead people to feel alive. Life will be so colorful when you can feel those Love, Lust, Hope, Desire. They all such great gifts from God.
