Loved or Feel Loved?

Somehow, I just suddenly think about what my professor had asked us, back when I was studying in UGM. I couldn’t remember exactly when, but I remember for sure that he asked the students a question, “do you prefer to be loved by someone but you don’t know it? Or do you prefer that you feel loved but actually there is no one?”

A great painting comes from an innocent mistakes

A great painting is not the one which is perfect and neat. At school, normally, I was asked to do my work neatly and mistake free. I would have a bad grade if I made mistakes in class, exams, or presentation. I grew up to be a perfectionist who wants everything to works as I have planned.

There it came the day that I decided to learn how to draw. I always like drawing since I was kid. Therefore, as a perfectionist, I would like to learn the technique, so that I can draw perfectly the sketches and its dark-light-composition.

As I joined a Studio Gajahwong in Museum Affandi,

Art and the mountain

On a shiny Sunday, I joined a group of painter to do sketches in Mt. Merapi. I end up drawing a model instead of the enormous burned mountain.