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"ANGELIQUE AND MANFRED WEDDING"

52  x  72  cm

oil on canvas

2003

(collection of Angelique and Manfred, the Netherlands)

"JIM the KID 2003"

51  x  70,5  cm

oil on canvas

2003

 

(collection of Heri Latief)

The title of the above two paintings were made after March 23, 2003, while the title of the below painting was made a few weeks before it.

 

 

 

 

 

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"Orchid Down Street"

66,5  x  69,5  cm

acrylic on canvas

2003

It is about a girl name Rila, with a nick name Ila, who appeared rather mysteriously in the painter's life. She met the painter several times in the public internet shop without knowing each other, i.e. she was busy with the computer while the painter also busy with another computer. Yet sometimes she smiled strangely to the painter.

One day, when the painter was riding a bus and suddenly remembered her, all of a sudden a few minutes later when the painter walked down from the bus, she was in the pedestrian with her friend.

Then after the painter made some calls in the public phone and walked to the nearby market, she was there again standing on the side of the street but not on the pedestrian, as if she was appearing from the ground. It makes the painter think of developing a good relationship with her, because it would be like going down, and it is important for the painter to make sure he would not be accused as trying to go up in politic.

A few months later, the painter has another chance to meet her again in her last day of being a high school student. That was the time when the painter followed her and make a first conversation with her. And it appeared that she lives in Orchid street, whereas her house is at the part of the street that is lower than most of the other houses on that street. Therefore this painting was then titled "ORCHID DOWN STREET".    

 

Some rather unusual moments related to this painting. 

 

This painting was produced based on a photo that placed by Rila in a photo printing and processing shop named "Adore". It was a postcard photo framed with a small frame. When I asked the shop keeper there, he mentioned that it was her who asked to place the photo in the shelf among some other framed photos. Yet it took several months before the painter finally made a decision to paint that photo, because she never mentioned about whether she wanted it to be painted. Nevertheless, because she placed it after I asked her to have her photo to be painted, so I considered the placement of that photo in Adore photo as her adore to my painting it.

When the sketch was started in the middle of December 2002, with some picture of orchids around her, on the next day Singapore prime minister Goh Cok Tong took a visit to Bogor and made a pose with Indonesian president Megawati in the Orchid garden at the presidential palace there, with some orchid around them.

At the background of this painting there is a red car, a Suzuki Aerio. It was because on October 2002 a Jakarta TV station Metro TV held a "Touch the Car" program for their second birthday. The prize was a red Suzuki Aerio.

 

And it happened several months after the painter wrote her a letter about the painter's  father  last words before he passed away, whereas he mentioned: "Carry......" several times, that remind the painter to  the Suzuki Carry owned by Rila.

The title "ORCHID DOWN STREET" for this painting is also some kind of the painter's wish for Nicole Kidman to win an Oscar. As we all know that Australia is also known as the "Down Under". And in year 2002, actually she has become one of the nominees for the best actress as she played beautifully in the Moulin Rouge, yet it turned out to become a "real delayed winning" for her before she finally received the Oscar in year 2003. Congratulation, Nicole.

Yet a few days before 75th Oscar 2003 took place, actually there were two "down under" nominees, Nicole Kidman and Salma Hayek. Because Salma is from Mexico, another kind of "down under" too when viewed from the Hollywood map. Nevertheless, Nicole's previous year play in Moulin Rouge could be another strong point for her to get the Oscar.

 

 

 

 

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THE OSCAR "QUANTUM".

On Satuday March 15, 2003, the painter read a text in the newsbar on TV about the death of Mr. Eddy Yusuf, an Indonesian ex-badminton player famous in the fifties. It reminds the painter about his daughter, Wieke or Yulianti Yusuf, who happened to be the painter's classmate in the senior high school. So the painter took a glance at a list in some card names to find the phone numbers of another friend in the senior high school Nimaudin, with a plan  to ask him to make a condolence visit to Wieke on the next day. Yet later on the plan to contact him was delayed to the next week.

Then on the next week, Sunday March 23, 2003, some other things in the morning has distracted the painter's mind about the plan. So instead of contacting him, at around ten o'clock in the morning the painter took a visit to a public internet shop for an hour and a half, then continued to blok M, a famous shopping area  in southern Jakarta. 

Actually, at first the painter was thinking about going to a shopping plaza there, the Blok M Plaza, but later on it was switched to another nearby shopping plaza the Pasaraya Grande.

At the seventh floor, in the bookstore, the painter took a glance at some magazines in the shelves, some automotive magazines featuring the new Ford Mustang in its cover. Yet because the magazines is wrapped by plastic, it was impossible to see the inside pages. So the painter look at some of the pages on an unwrapped magazine. 

Then the painter took a few steps to the other parts of the book store, and a book about "Guidance on Teaching Piano" (an Indonesian Book with the title "Penuntun Mengajar Piano" written by Latifah Kodijat Marzoeki) catches the painter's  attention. 

Because the painter's nephew is learning piano in the recent months, so there came an idea about "what if she buy this book, to surprise her teacher.......".  What a clumsy idea. Yet the painter felt a need to take the book from the shelf and read some pages shortly.

Two days later, in the newspaper, the painter was surprised to find out that the winner for men's lead role in Oscar 2003 was Adrian Brody who....................has a similar look to the painter's old friend Nimaudin that the painter planned to call. And yet when the planned was distracted by other things, the painter was like being guided from above to Pasaraya Grande and took a glance to a book called  "Guidance on Teaching Piano". And Adrian Brody won the Oscar for his role in the film "The Pianist".

 As if there has been some layers of happenings that should take place to support the next things to happen. This sounds somewhat like a quantum kind of theory. Well, the painter uses the word "quantum" here because last night before writing this, the painter could not fell asleep until around half past twelve watching the Discovery program at TPI, a Jakarta TV station, about the quantum theories, about Newton, Einstein, Niels Bohr, JS Bell, atom, electrons, particles, wave, and others.

 

 

 

 

 

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