Every kiss
every cup of coffee
every traffic light
every door I open
Fear of the unknown
keep me sane
clueless, vanish into the dusk
repeatedly
“living is easy with eyes closed”
something changes my world
in every words you’ve said
in every smiles you’ve made
in every turns you’ve passed
I’ll keep them still.
Remember the way you put your hands underneath my shirt
light me up my cigarette after
stumbling upon bed sheet
woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning
watch underrated scenes
without warning
you pleased me
i did too.
Sun finally out that day
and so were you.
They’ve been laboring under misapprehension
from dawn to dusk
I see fireflies fly beneath
I found the light
Once sky told me
that is okay to be dark
Dark is not always sad they said
I need more light
My father told me I was a curious one,
when I was a child, I used to caught fireflies in backyard
and saved them in my pocket
released them in my parents’ room
I said “when I grow up, they will remain within you.”
I thought I have found my light.
I didn’t know,
fireflies are not here forever.
They showed me how to create images,
about ourselves,
which divined us.
Wallflowers, soil and water.
Soundless,
of rain drops
please, enlighten me.
(Typing…)
A heart of mine told me once
Time was just once a future,
After seconds, minutes, hours,
it passed,
People eyes and their madness,
depression and self destruction
weird acts and well-planned dramas.
Life lies between present and past,
dreams of reality.
When I think about my self
lights and paths are just side to side.
I’m not here for crossing time,
I’m evolving,
that’s why I am here.
Feel me?
Note: This is my self experience through my feeling towards the artworks, these words are not linked to any of Artists’ point of view or messages.
EQUATOR #4
BIENNALE JOGJA XIV
Biennale Jogja (BJ) is an international biennial run by Yogyakarta Regional Government and organized by Yayasan Biennale Yogyakarta (YBY). It was first organized in 1988, and this year reached its 14th edition. Starting with 2011, YBY launched the project of Biennale Jogja Equator series (Biennale Equator) with focus on the region of the equator belt. Biennale Jogja assumes the equator as a new perspective which simultaneously opens up to confront the ‘establishment’ as well the conventions towards the organization of such events. Equator represents the starting point to create a common platform to “re-read’” the world.
Curatorial Biennale Jogja
Biennale Jogja XIV Equator #4 will respond to the issue of live uncertainty which has made us less brave to hope as the reality has become increasingly hard to understand.
The main team raised in Biennale Jogja XIV Equator #4 is:
STAGE of HOPELESSNESS
This big narrative invites us to experience a transition from uncertainty towards hope. The narration will present a series of traumatic moments which can be interpreted as aesthetic moments of raising awareness. Nine repertoires will be shown, consisting of three main parts such as Organizing Chaos as the main theme for Festival Equator, Stage of Hopelessness as the main theme for Main Exhibition and Parallel Events, and Managing Hope as the theme for Biennale Forum.[1]
Main exhibition held at Jogja Nasional Musium
2nd Nov – 10th Dec 2017
More Info check: biennalejogja.org
Set in wide-open-19th-century spaces, it’s a two-and-a-half-hour sadomasochistic Western domestic horror film divide in four chapters. The theme of film is about the evil of incest. Dutch-immigrant preacher from hell, Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning starring as his daughter, who he explicitly wants to marry.
Which he thinks it’s God’s will, he cites the Bible story of Lot and his daughters to prove it. The film opens with chapter one called Revelation, when a frontier wife – Fanning – plays Liz with a daughter and stepson; she’s also mute, speaks in sign language. The hell of Liz started when the family goes to church and the new preacher shows up. The preacher is called the Reverend.
Liz knows she and her family are in great danger. Wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Liz is hunted by vengeful Preacher telling Liz that he has to punish her.
Brimstone is that the more the film moves into the past, the closer it gets into heart of darkness. When domestic sexual abuse of the past of life brings the future punishment and judgement of the lone survivor, Liz, but then Reverend calls it “love”. Such a one creepy spark of grotesque suspense.
The theme may be termed sexuality abusive, is that incest of demon of any of young girl could imagine of her very-own-home-nightmares.
Watch trailer
Last call watch Brimstone at GoetheHaus Jakarta 14th May 2017, 19:30.
Maren Karlson is a Berlin-based illustrator has a style of abstract combine with still life and portrait demonstrating a fresh and new perspective of the female in every bold characteristic should have.
From the interview by The Editorial Magazine to talk about her artworks. As a young girl, Karlson always felt very strongly that no matter what she did, no one would take me seriously. She figured it must have been because she looked younger than she was. Anything she did was called “cute”.[1]
Karlson is using the female character in her drawings as an outlet for the secret wish to be more intimidating, less cute, more assertive and less nice. The character she made basically embodies everything she has always wanted to be.
For Karlson feels it is important to portray a female that is expression extreme emotions; anger, fear, resentment, rage, shadenfreude-aggression which is not an emotion of young girl express freely.
She wants to draw girls who are unafraid of spoiling the fun, who demand the expression of feeling, who are proud to ruin an atmosphere that shames women for speaking up, who confidently take up the space they deserve, and who will never be scared into being silent because they have nothing to lose.
Karlson is more in control freak to her creation process, she plans them out down to the very finest detail. These days she has come to think that it is also important to let go and not censor yourself before have even made anything. When trying to create without thinking or judging while she does it, and accept any idea, no matter how “bad” she thinks it is. There will always be time for judgment later.
Karlson says it’s been very luxurious to live in Berlin as an artist. Berlin sometimes that she feels like a lot of people stay isolated, they don’t really care about meeting new people because they “already have friends.” She’s not seriously complaining because she has some amazing and inspiring friends who are really supportive, which she really thankful for.
