The work of Ari Bayuaji epitomizes this confluence. Using discarded materials such as plastics collected from the sea, Bayuaji collaborates with local communities to revive traditional weaving techniques. His practice interweaves environmental fragility with cultural resilience, turning waste into continuity. The woven fiber is made central as a metaphor for continuity, binding disparate fragments into a new whole. Weaving then becomes a way to reckon with ecological loss while affirming the value of collective knowledge. . In I Saw Rothko in My Dream, Bayuaji transforms material excess into contemplative planes, where texture and hue resonate as portals to inner vision.