Luh’De Gita Indonesian, b. 1997
The Rangdas are Coming, 2026
Oil on canvas
45 x 45 cm
'Is it possible for an artist to relinquish desire (Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā) over their own imagination? This is what I attempt in this drawing series. Amid the scattered temple ruins surrounding...
"Is it possible for an artist to relinquish desire (Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā) over their own imagination?
This is what I attempt in this drawing series.
Amid the scattered temple ruins surrounding Mount Merapi, I am not concerned with the history or iconography of the reliefs and statues. Instead, my focus turns to the stones themselves. In these works, I simply follow the traces left by natural phenomena upon their surfaces—cracks formed by earthquakes, fractures shaped by cooled lava, the shifting tones of rain and sunlight, as well as the chisel marks of unknown artisans who once built these temples."
This is what I attempt in this drawing series.
Amid the scattered temple ruins surrounding Mount Merapi, I am not concerned with the history or iconography of the reliefs and statues. Instead, my focus turns to the stones themselves. In these works, I simply follow the traces left by natural phenomena upon their surfaces—cracks formed by earthquakes, fractures shaped by cooled lava, the shifting tones of rain and sunlight, as well as the chisel marks of unknown artisans who once built these temples."
