Chiquita, Banana [June,2000]

  On this page  I will try to explain the nature of my work, what I am interested on, what inspired me, and the people I worship in the photography world.

   The Object and the apple of my eyes behind the view finder should be the most common thing we interact everyday, people.
   Acquintances, friends, families, partners, or even a total stranger.
   What I am aiming to capture  most of the times are moments, attitudes, moods, backgrounds, and so forth. Hence I love to know them personally before my camera do the snapping.
    I often use myself for my work, dear 'ol me. I strangely have this fascination on myself, how I grow, how I change, I am after all a very Evolve person. I expand in so many ways I feel the need to capture every single moment  of it, if I could manage. 
    I am a narcist really, and I practice narcism. Self Loved for you people who are not familiar with  the terms.
    I love doing portraits, live documentary, fashion, and surrealism. Well actually anything that would involve people would be thefirst choice.

    The Nature of my work should be in a way biographical. Its like a scrapbook , a journal, in autobiographical sort of way.
     Looking at my work would be the equivalent of reading my diary.
    You would be able to know what Im interested on at that time, where I was at certain times, who I hang around with, the lifestyle I live, to the person Im going out with.
     I am self documenting my life journey, whats happening around me.

     What Interest me. Culture, Women's Issue, Mysticism, Spiritual world,  Sex and Sexual Identity should be the example of the many things I am interested on.
      Entactogenism (innerself touch) is a very interesting subject for me to explore as I am a very aware person, I like to explore myself. And so far I have done well with  my Existence.
      Culture is a very dear friend of mine, I am well travelled, I have lived  in some foreign Countries long enough to absorb the culture and making it as part of my Identity. So culture should be what I am interested on for backgrounds. I have so far known to have extract the East and Western Culture that have clashes so many times, but luckily survived. Combining diffrent beliefs without loosing any sense of what I am really. An Eastern woman.
        My ability to speak fluently in both Indonesian as my Mother Tongue and English for my second and a language I converse in had

proven to bring goods for me. On socializing and blending in with people from other countries.
      Women Issues, is a big thing for me. I am now a 21st century modern woman, but I cant get away with the fact of one day wanting to be a Mother as well as having a good Carier in  Visual Communication Industries. There for I take the matters of studying and knowing where I stand as a Woman seriously.
    Female body and organs holds somewhat  a great fascination to me. Hence a lot of the Nudes I did was of a woman. The curves and the many diversity of types makes one hell of a body landscape to study and to explore.
    Why some of us are thinner, some of us are bigger, smaller, shorter, taller, is some question of and endless body study for me. They are all to me along with the diversity are Glorius!
    Sex and sexual identity, another thing that interest me. I would love to take pictures and may be interviewed some of the Transexual I seen, have them posed for me and ask them what they feel, why are they so glamour and so on. Unfortunately no one had come across as the kind of person I am looking for in this matter.

    My Skill should  consist of a lot of things to. My creative nature equiped me with the ablility to expand Ideas, not fearing to go through boundaries and explore the limits and push it to the edge of the conservative and the avant garde.
   
   What Inspired me? A lot of things starting with People around me, Printed Visual material, Television, Fashion and  LifeStyle, the Music Industries, Contemporary Artist,  Photographers, along with all the Anonymous Contributor out there who sets my mind ticking by viewing their work.
    Greek Mythology seems to invite itself to my attention.
    By Reading literature I expand so much wider that my photography becoming conceptual and have a lot more of  philosophy behind it.

     Whose My favorite Photographers? I have always loved Joel Peter Witkin's work. Deformed bodies, surrealist settings, interesting original prints, My Mecca in photography is facing that way.
Since I have a European orientated backgrounds doing photography, I should say some names that would come out on my list of God's in Photography are the likes of Nick Knight for his fashion and digital lay out design,
and Juergen Teller for the honesty on his shots. Although Cindy Sherman and Sam-Taylor-Wood are still on my Goddes pedestal.
    
Thats all folks, now Is the time for the Slide Show on my photogallery...
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