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Tale Feathers! Flying Frigate Pirates. Photography, conservation with ManButur Suantara at Sawidji Studio. Explore the blog.
Learn more about these amazing birds and their exceptional abilities. In addition, they have some unexpected weaknesses as well.
Selfie Series Made Kaek, 2024 Acrylic mixed-media on canvas 50 pieces of 30cm x 40cm
Selfie Series, an installation of 50 individual creature portraits by Made Kaek. Exhibited in Culmination Visual Art Exhibition at Santrian Art Gallery May-June 2024.
Selfie Series
The Creatures of Made Kaek emerge from the diaphanous layer of the subconscious. Bridging spiritual and material, perceptions, illusions, myth and reality. The transformation of Made Kaek’s creatures has taken a turn toward something interesting. Closer than ever to claiming its human identity, never more so than in the Selfie Series. In the past Made Kaek’s renowned Creatures have only played at being human, suggestive and uncommitted. Wearing a tie, or adorning shoes with their hybrid forms. Here, undisputed, with a singular statement Selfie, they claim the human stage. And why? perhaps they need self-affirmation toward existence the same way humans do. Without a selfie, they may not exist. The essential record of one’s experience today, as is the phenomenon of today’s digital and virtual times, the most prolific form of journaling, the ‘Selfie’. Even Kaek’s Creatures cannot resist this validation of existence.
Street View. Street Photography with visual artist and photographer Tjandra Hutama. Sawidji Studio and Gallery.
Tjandra Hutama shares some points on the theory and practice of street photography.
Street Photography
Street View... this sharing of some experience aims to help to understand, not to seek justification. In the world of art, especially photography, there is no absolute/definitive justification, because understanding a photographic work is about the feeling of seeing.
(via Agus Kama Loedin, a portrait)
(via Manus, a Conscious Journey)
Manus, a Conscious Journney
Manus is a latin word first used in 1867 which means the distal segment of the vertebrate forelimb from carpus to terminus, in other words, the hand. In scientific discourse, it is often said that the human opposable thumb is what has taken us on a course of evolution very different from other animals. So, Manus is contextualised here as a symbolic representation of the question.. What makes us human?
All things considered, is it our ability to express ourselves in complex communication systems, our imagination and our reason? Are these all aspects of what makes human beings unique? Manus, a Conscious Journey unites five artists, in their exploration and discourse of this question.
In truth, a question that by nature is intangible and mysterious, irrefutably paradoxical, boundless and obscene,.. like an attempt to map all the rabbit holes in the world connecting into one giant maze. All in all, it is a visual foray, a journey exploring our own perceived notions of consciousness. Sharing our creative process whilst reflecting this humbling and yet simple question.. what is humanity?
With this intention in mind, we invite you to join us through our collaborative process, on a journey we made together, reflecting on the micro and macro whilst following our wandering minds along many detours. Yet, we found the process itself and our experience together, may be said to carry the answer to the unanswerable question.
In other words, in the process of this collaboration, our effort, this seemingly pointless endeavour to create, to connect, to express, to empathise, to understand, to analyse.. to love and be excited, to drive and generously give.. so much of all those simple things, does not explain, but it reveals.. the unique aspects of our humanity.
Listen to the Signs. Learning inclusivity together with Sushrusa Deaf School Students on the International Day of Persons With Disabilities.
Creative Portrait Photography. Conceptualise and experience a purely creative photography process with Dian at Sawidji Studio Photography Bali.
