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"Adam Eve Reunion",

147 x 166 cm

oil on canvas, 2001.

 

One day at the end of January 2001, I visited some adults-only sites on the internet. It was not a matter of geting addicted, because it was for the first time that I spent a special time to visit such sites, as previously I used to only took a glimpse on such sites. The next day, an Arab girl named Rahma Sarita Al Jufri who works as a presenter at Metro TV, Jakarta, appeared on TV with some tears in her eyes. And she happened to be a presenter of a TV program called "Realitas", an Indonesian word for "reality".

So I considered it as a sign from Allah that I should enter the real love, getting married with a real girl rather than just watching those pictures. Then I made her some paintings, among them is this one called "Adam Eve Reunion".

The painting was produced at around June 2001, uses Jabal Rahmah as its background setting, a mountain known as the place of Adam and Eve met each other again. Somewhat similar to her name Rahma.

On June 4, 2001 she married a police officer.

 

The black nuance of Rahma's outfit seems to inspire some other significant moments internationally, like the following:

 


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The Nobel Peace Prize 2001

"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

United Nations (U.N.)

1/2 of the prize

Founded in 1945

Kofi Annan

1/2 of the prize

Ghana

U.N. Secretary-General

b. 1938

 

 

 

 

And the Oscar Goes  to ..................

 

Halle Berry became the first black actress to earn an Academy Award in a lead role, winning Sunday for her portrayal of a death-row widow involved with her husband's executioner in "Monster's Ball." Denzel Washington, playing a corrupt cop in "Training Day," became the second black to win best actor. They joined Sidney Poitier, who received the best-actor Oscar for 1963's "Lilies of the Field" and received a career-achievement award Sunday. More...    

 

If you take a closer look to the above painting, you could see that Rahma is using  a black  outfit.  Like helping the jury to read the winner for the year 2002 oscar, that for the first time taken by a black woman.

While Rahma later on married a police officer, like the story of a cop  played by Denzel Washington. But of course it should not necessarily the same type of cop, because Denzel is a corrupt cop in the movie while Rahma's  husband is a cop in the real world.

And at the top part of the painting, it is like two persons in a dancing mood. Does dancing sounds a little bit like Denzel? As if the painting was helping the jury to read the nice achievement of the winner for the year 2002 oscar.

 

 

 

It was like being in the sequences of Harry Potter stories. Plenty of unusual things happened to the painter during 2001 especially since the appearance of this Rahma.

Like what happened to Hasheem Rahman, with a last name rather similar to her name, who win the world heavyweight championship against Lennox Lewis on April. Though later on he lost it again to same person on November.

And Julia Roberts won the oscar, appeared with a similar look with Rahma when she received the prize.

Penelope Cruze who somewhat look like Rahma, seems to get better moments too in the year 2001, among which was her latest movie "Vanilla Sky" with Tom Cruise. The other celebrity was Nelly Furtado who also looks like Rahma.

While another movie, "Final Fantasy the Spirit Within", has Dr. Aki, who looks like Rahma.

Michael Jackson's latest hit, "Cry", like responding the Wednesday Tears of Rahma. While on his 30th anniversary concert, some of the sequences like inspired by Rahma's appearances in my life. Began with Dionne Worwick wearing black blazer, then Gloria Gainer with "I WiIl Survive" whilst the background dancer girls wearing boxing gloves, and followed by Mark Anthony with "She's Out of My Life", and Michael Jakcson with "Man In The Mirror", then "I Want You Back".

Even her hand-phone number was rather strange, as it was easy for me to remember. The first one contains the year of my birth. Then she changed to another number, that contains the number of public transportation car from Cinere where I live to Ciputat where she lives before she married.

Steven Spielberg and his team at DreamWorks SKG produced "SHREK". Rahma hold a law degree, which in Indonesia allows her to have the title of "SH" behind her name. And she came from Surabaya, whereas people there usually call each other with the name "REK". Combining "SH" and "REK" becomes "SHREK". As if  Steven has anticipated it, because in fact the making of this movie has started three years earlier.

Year 2001 also marks an important history for animation movies, whereas it was the first time that a new category for animation movies was launched in the Oscar, the Animated Feature Film category, that was won by SHREK.

The tragic one was WTC tragedy, that happened just a few hours after I sent a painting design to Bill Gates. WTC like Wednesday Tears C...............?

 

This is the logo for my letters to Rahma. A left eye flowing tears. The words "airmata rabu" means "Wednesday Tears".

While the latest album of Michael Jackson also contains a song "Cry", and the cover has a left eye darker than the other part of the picture.

And the video clip of the song "Cry" shows people holding hands together making a chain of human, across the city, across the country, across the mountains, like the hands holding each other on the " Adam Eve Reunion" painting.

If Jacko would like to own the above painting, I think I would be glad to sell it to him.

 

 

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