‘sprites’ #3
some images of Suklu paintings are property of Komaneka Art Gallery
After a long, boring and though year of 2009, unexpectedly I closed the Year with something extraordinary to be PROUD OF and keep in mind, Fenomenally Amazing….
EBULLIENCE, an Installation of Tremendous Energies of ART, Trust and Respect of so various spirit of CREATIVE TALENT originally and or based in Denpasar city. Hungrily gathered together of three different Generations, I made Budhiana, Nyoman Gde Yudane, Jango Paramartha, Arsawan, Veny Lydiawati, Marlowe bandem, Arief ‘ayip’budiman, Iwan sastrawan. Stunning Vision from Graphical and Videographer of KAS, Erick Est and Ridwan Rudianto. Representing the rising stars, A.A. Gde ‘Gung De’ Raka Gunawarman, Ade Sucita Ariasandika, Wayan Hari ‘WK’ Saweka, I Bgs Nyoman Darmayasa and Made Aryk Prajawan of Architecture Faculty, Udayana Universitiy and A.A. Tisha Sara Dewi Sabrina Yuka Amilia, Wicitra ‘Acit’ Pradnyaratih, I Gst. Ngr. Bgs. Ariwiratma aka Gung De aka ‘Popo’ of SMA 1 Denpasar
Born with a snow balling effect of Influencing and Inspiring each others, then followed by Enriching and Enhancing the seed of Ideas by numerous Inventive Energies from all direction, EBULLIENCE appears and performed as a reflection of Great Collaboration of Sound, Motion, graphical color and Light touching your Six Senses, a moment or façade of Expression without any Hesitation. EBULLIENCE gesture a very soft message to the people and society of Denpasar city (and Government I supposed…), answering to Cultural mayhem and at the same time, we EMBRACING TOMORROW..!
Emerged by a brave and honest approach and gigantic support from Putu Suwitra as the main Event Organizer of Denpasar festival, he was successfully bridging the communication between all the Wild, Independent Creative Energies and the Government ‘comfortable’ mind setting. A breakthrough, that had never happen throughout the history of Denpasar itself.
Ebullience has grown up and become a Rare Happening and Moment, a moment of Truth. I hope that this is would not become, the beginning of the end…
WALK OF EBULLIENCE
I had a terrible memory of moment and dates, so to write it down dates by dates will be the most crucial and effective ways to remind me in the days, month and years to come. Please welcome, road to EBULLIENCE….
December 5th, 2009
Begin with an Invitation Email from the Event Organizer follow by a brief explanation from Ayip, my best friend
Denpasar 5 Desember 2009
Kepada yth.
Bapak Yoka Sara
Bapak Made Budhiana
Bapak Arsawan
Bapak Jango Paramartha
Dengan hormat,
Dalam rangka Denpasar Festival yang mengetengahkan perayaan kreatifitas
seni dan budaya unggulan kota Denpasar dalam berbagai aktifitas seperti
seni dan budaya, kuliner, perdagangan, tekstil dan produk kerajinan,
Aktifitas kontemporer dan urban dalam kemasan festival selama tanggal
28-31 Desember 2009, Pemerintah Kota Denpasar mengajak Bapak/Ibu warga
Denpasar yang berprofesi sebagai artis/desainer/arsitek untuk terlibat
menyumbangkan pemikiran dan karyanya dalam seni instalasi yang akan
ditampilkan baik sebelum, selama maupun setelah acara Denpasar Festival
di area titik nol kilometer Denpasar.
Adapun tema yang dibawakan dalam acara Festival Denpasar ini adalah
“Embracing Tomorrow” yang juga merupakan gagasan dasar untuk
dikembangkan dalam seni instalasi yang akan dibuat.
Dibawah ini adalah brief yang dapat dipakai untuk mengembangkan gagasan
yang kemudian akan dituangkan dalam konsep karya untuk………
December 10th, 2009
December 14th, 2009
Our first gathering in Bale Timbang -a serene dining place created by our arsawan- has emerging and stimulating the Birth of an Ideas of Collaboration, triggered by a quick sketches of imagination and reflecting a simple Vision, as shown below
December 16th, 2009
After directly set the scale on site, we could determined the VOLUME of the Installation to be translated and visualized later on by Iwan Sastrawan and his creative team.
December 18th, 2009
December 21st, 2009
December 24th, 2009
December 25th, 2009
December 26th, 2009
December 27th, 2009
December 28th, 2009
December 30th, 2009
Chrisye (born Chrismansyah Rahadi) was a progressive-pop Indonesian pop singer, of mixed Chinese-Indonesian descent. He was born in Jakarta on September 16, 1949, and died there on March 30, 2007 following a long battle with lung cancer.[1]. He recorded 21 solo albums in his lifetime. He married in 1982 to G.F. Damayanti Noor, who was also a singer; they had four children. Chrisye started recording in the band Gipsy in 1969. The band covered music including Procol Harum, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis and Blood, Sweat & Tears, and ventured to the USA to play in New York. The band in 1976 collaborated with Guruh Soekarno Putra, one of the sons of former Indonesian President Soekarno, and brother of Megawati Soekarnoputri, subsequent Indonesian President, on Guruh Gipsy, a progressive rock album that combined prog rock with Balinese gamelan.[2]
His raise to fame came with the release of the critically acclaimed movie soundtrack “Badai Pasti Berlalu (The Storm Will Surely Pass)” in 1977. The album was done in collaboration with Eros Jarot (currently a member of Indonesian parliament) and Yockie Suryoprayogo, Indonesia’s first progressive musician. His first, and most popular solo single was in 1977 with Lilin Lilin Kecil (Little Candles), composed by James F. Sundah, who was a contestant of Prambors Radio teen song-writing contest.
Chrisye From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Space
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by Nagarjuna (150? – 250?) Timeline English version by Stephen BatchelorOriginal Language Sanskrit |
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No trace of space
Is there before
The absence of obstruction
Which describes it.
With no obstruction,
How can there be
Absence of obstruction?
Who distinguishes between them?
Space is not obstruction
Or an absence of it,
Nor is it a description
Or something to describe.
Fluidity and heat,
Energy and gravity
Are just like space.
In seeing things
To be or not to be
Fools fail to see
A world at ease.
source: www.Poetry-Chaikana.com
Gang & Guitar
I ‘m Full of Shit, excerpt from Back in NYC - Genesis, Lamb Lies down on Broadway album, 1974
A. A. Ngr. Martasunu
He never had any app0intment, free as a bird, Brilliant, he only follow his heart
His Son
In the year of 90′s, at the very beginning of my career, my eyes dazed to a door carving detail at one of the traditional pavilion in my Great Grandfather house, Puri Gerenceng Denpasar. I assumed it carved at the beginning of 19th century or come from the earlier generation before my Great Grandfathers era.
The pattern applied on the left and right hand sides of the doorframe are not alike. I believe it was not on purpose and technically, he made a mistake at the beginning of the process.
To what I understand, mostly when it a symmetrical or typical pattern, we need to make a hand drawing, or sketch of pattern in any media (paper for example) as a template.
Both images are two example of my great grandfather works and style, showing a high attention to details and a deep touch to the object. By orbserving his works, I can feel on his pursuit to perfection, no matter the scale and size of the objects.
I do not believe in coincident occurrences. There are always Purpose behind Cause and consequence. However, when it comes continuously, it will mean different….
Day 1: Saturday, March 21, 2009 afternoon,
I visit my uncle Prof. Dr. I Gusti Putu Phalgunadi, M.A,Dr.Litt. in Puri Gerenceng, Denpasar to invite him for a small ceremony I am going to held in my own house. He left Bali in year of 1978, for almost 25 years to study History of Hindu in New Delhi, India and honored with Gold medal, Certificate in Karma Kandha (Reciting of Vedas and Performing Yajna).
I was impressed with his remark (after I expressed my recent works and achievements, an effusion of my dedication),
“Aja Wera Ila-Ila Dahat Tan Siddhi Phalanya…”
Knowledge only can be teach to they who believed and faithful, or otherwise it will be dangerous, never succeed in everything they did
“Only appeared mostly as a foot note in every of Ciwa Siddhanta and Ciwa Bhairawa manuscript and in Tantrayana (worshiping Cakti/Power or Devi/Dhurga)”
“Written in Bhuwana Kosa manuscript, during Empu Sendok Era”
Day2: Sunday, March 22, 2009 afternoon,
Continuing Inviting first cousin, coincidently found a rare old photograph of my Great Grandfather,
I Gusti Made Gede and his students.
a rare image of my Great grandfather and his students
During the Dutch Colonial period, Puri Gerenceng and My Great Grandfather well known for study and learn about Art of Carving and Traditional Literature, Architectural Knowledge, inherited a part of his father’s knowledge, I Gusti Ketut Gede from Puri Kedaton Kesiman, Badung Bali.
Day3: Monday, March 23, 2009,
I grabbed ‘Suardi’ -a local magazine focused in ‘the voice from world of Art’- from the very corner of my table, and it was there for weeks. Open it up, my eyes astonished to a profile article of Jay Subyakto, one of a view ‘bigwig’ to myself.
Both of antipodes words, Perfection and Imperfection always storming my head more and more, which I realized and ‘awake’ extensively from the last ten years of my Architectural journey, an awakening that had been started to make me believe that a ‘Perfect Works’ or so-called a ‘masterpiece’ can achieved from carefully combining -naturally- of both perfection and imperfection through out the design and implementation process.
Imperfection in my Architecture characterized by gave up spaces and allowances for several of natural elements to contribute and play their own role as nature as they are, but still in a harmonious scale and proportion to the implemented architectural spaces, emphasizing to the Sequence design scenario, and or to work the other way round. To string with sensitivity both of antipodes Elements, Trees to my perfect column, shadows to my plain wall and floor, rippling water to my reflecting flat glass, clouds to my ceiling, and color of the sun to my color palette are several elements that I can used to figure out the above perceptive. A harmonization and a grand collaboration of Static Element, in which symbolize our ego as a human being, and Motion Element represent the nature of macro cosmos, ensemble to an Architectural Orchestra.
SAS boutique, jalan teuku umar, Denpasar-Bali photograph courtessy of Laksana Eka Lanus
Further to the above reveal, through implementation process of the project-which we always follow until the end of the project- , anticipations and decisions, acceptances and allowances to imperfect details and materials, improvisation to detail and architectural elements, and as the biggest issue is to collaborate one more time with the other design discipline like Landscape and Interior design.
mystical sunset at Kayu Aga Residence, photograph courtessy of Laksana Eka Lanus
( to be continued….Influenced, Invinite Pursuit)
Dini hari kemarin saya merasa beruntung untuk dapat menyaksikan sebuah film Amerika produksi tahun 2007 yang bertajuk “FREEDOM WRITERS”, dibintangi oleh Hillary Swank serta beberapa actor dan actress berkarakter lain yang mengangkat cerita dari sebuah buku “freedom Writers Diary” yang ditulis oleh Erin Gruwell dan ide untuk mengangkatnya ke layar lebar datang dari Tracey Durning, seorang journalist, yang membuat dokumentasi tentang Erin Gruwell untuk ABC News program Primetime Live.
Plot dari film tersebut saya coba kutip dari wikipedia:
The movie takes place in the early 1990′s until late 1990′s. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell, a new, excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown, Newport Beach, to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, where a new integration program has implemented where students of all backgrounds and races are put in classes together. Her enthusiasm quickly dwindles away when she realizes that her students (all at-risk students, also known as “unteachables”) are not the happy-go-lucky eager students she was expecting. Her students must be forced in to class by security guards and are segregated into groups according to race within the classroom. The tension is apparent every time students from one race look at those from another. Not only does she meet opposition from her students, she also has a hard time with her department head, who believes she should ……
… Meanwhile, Gruwell gives her students a project to write their diary in the form of a book. She compiles the projects into a book and names it The Freedom Writers Diary. Her husband divorces her and Margaret tells her she cannot teach her kids for their junior year. She fights this decision, eventually convincing the superintendent to allow her to teach her kids’ junior and senior year. The film ends with a note that Gruwell successfully brought many of her students to graduation and college. (wikipedia)
Beberapa phrase (memorable Quotes) yang tetap mengiang ditelinga saya setelah film berakhir adalah kalimat yang diucapkan oleh salah seorang tokoh murid (saya lupa yang mana), kira-kira bunyinya seperti ini, “ Saya tidak mengharapkan apa yang saya tulis (baca;tuangkan) dalam diary agar nantinya dibaca oleh orang lain, tapi lebih kepada apa yang dapat saya tinggalkan di dunia ini dari dalam diri saya…”.
Semua kejadian-kejadian yang saya alami dan hadapi sebelumnya tiba-tiba seakan menjadi terkait , Blog yang dibuatkan oleh Budi Ridwin dengan pesan “…sebagai diary aja, jadi bisa menulis apa aja dengan bebas pak…”, keragu-raguan sekaligus dorongan untuk mencurahkan (release) kegelisahan selama bertahun-tahun di kepala berbaur, dan akhirnya quotes diatas, menjawab keraguan saya selama ini. Saya selalu percaya bahwa, tidak ada kejadian di dunia ini terjadi secara kebetulan. Jadi, ikuti saja kemana angin berembus dan air mengalir…
Selama dua hari kemarin, saya mendapat kunjungan yang mengejutkan dari seorang jenius lain di negeri ini, weniar pramesti. Mengejutkan karena wenny hadir begitu saja dari Jakarta setelah saya mengabari sehari sebelum saya memberikan Guest Lecture di Kampus Universitas Udayana bersama-sama dengan Ir. Adi Nugroho dari Jogyakarta serta Putu Edy Semara. Just like that, yang sejujurnya sesaat saya sempat menyangsikan ketika wenny menyampaikan bahwa dia akan tiba jam 9.20 di Bali. Yang membuat saya respect, nyaman dan terkesan pada saat bersama weniar pramesti adalah aura kesederhanaan, to the point, jujur dan jauh berlawanan dengan apa yang telah dia raih dan hasilkan dalam berkreatifitas.
behind the screen...that is what she call it
Hanya satu hal, I noticed that she sleep quiet a lot. Tadi jam 3 sore weniar pramesti mengabari bahwa dia telah tiba di Jakarta setelah dalam penerbangan dengan cuaca buruk, serta baru saja bangun dari tidur. zzz..zzz…zz, hope to see you again.