Batik as one of the intangible cultural heritage of Indonesia has been influencing my ideas in creating various artwork, but I never use the technique -using canting and hot wax- directly into my work before. This time, I dare my self to explore more through batik technique, by emphasizing the image of spatial dimensions, which is contrary to the traditional Batik I used to see. In this batik, I combine the visual style of Cirebon and Chinese culture that is inspired by the Princess Ong Tien Nio's batik-cloth in Keraton Kasepuhan Cirebon.
Approaching surrealistic ornamental visual style, this batik contains pomegranates, dragon's body, butterflies, bees, honeycomb, and Megamendung (clouds) as the main ornaments, which are depicted by the combination of distortion, simplification, stylization, and destruction techniques.
As part of my expression as well as appreciation of my origin, I tend to be explorative in drawing the batik, and placed my self in the middle of traditional culture and modern culture -free from traditional rules-. In that case, this expression means free to choose and decide which aspects to be kept and removed; replaced, in pursuance of the highest contentment in creating my work. Thus, I keep the traditional batik technique to have an experience of what my ancestors have done, and create modern visual style in the batik I made.
