Artist Statement
Such a vacuum, our mind inhales and records each moment and perception from experience around. It collects and become a coagulator, where finally bring it out and, which is done by me to produce my artworks.
I create a deep perception angle of our life; seeing the nature and human has connected and interact with one another. Memories, glimpses and experiences will interpret through to express impetus onto the canvas. That collection of images and surrounding objects has been delivered through my artwork. Thorough process of experimental called ‘self expression’; consumption as: colour, brush stroke, drip, splash, texture, accidental, colours, structure, line, incision and form are some elements that producing my artwork.
This is the way I translate a deep feeling appearing onto something surface, in comparison to; musician of a songs note, or poet to a sheet of paper. Reputed begin since the year of 1940s, abstract flew election via ‘abstract expressionist’ spearheaded like Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and ‘Action Painting’ as those ever produced by Jackson Pollock as references of my artworks. Abstraction gives a freedom to compose without pinioned to something image or particular certain object only.
Its challenges the process of mind creation, involve for expression painter without having a restriction; doing experimental in creating. This kind of art is an ongoing discussion, of course with some interpretation by people. Each of my artworks is relevant with one another narration angle of, theme and procedure of production. One suggestion for the completion of the work is when my feeling has seen enough elements succeed decorated in full or part of it, although it is not as a totally final satisfaction of creation.
Every work has deep limits in production, but there is no ending, neither a full stop narration to produce of my artworks, its will continuously producing. Abstraction is the best way to express what’s in person. Each experience from the deep perception towards life is as much as artworks.
ABOUT MY WORKS HIKAYAT SERIES / MYTH SERIES Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa or The Kedah Annals is an ancient Malay literature that chronicles the bloodline of Merong Mahawangsa the founder of the Kedah, state in Malaysia. Though there are historic accuracies and myth that makes many incredulous assertions. The era covered by the text ranged from the opening of Kedah by Merong Mahawangsa. This is a heritage of fabulous myths and legends of ogres and Garuda (gigantic birds / demigod), warriors and fairy princesses, battles and romance. I paint this series with my imagination how the myth story from the texts of Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa can be transformed onto canvas. I also add Jawi text (traditional Malay text), which this Hikayat have been written onto my paintings.
MENGIMBAU SERIES [GLIMPSE SERIES] STATEMENT This series is about glimpses of my childhood. As I have been raised at fisher village, name Kuala Kedah, life of childhood had many memories. My playground was along a river, play with mud, catch Belangkas (horse shoe crab), run onto planter, making kites, catches a fish and boating. All these memories sometimes glimpse over my head. I used colors, shape, form and kind of things has captured by my eyes, my touched and what I had feels to produce my artworks. I tried to remember all those memories in my childhood when I paint about this series.
TRAP SERIES (Bubu / Perangkap) This concept refers to “Bubu” (traditional fish trap) itself and its connection with humans life, I interpret the “Bubu” as a symbol of life. In man’s life: experiencing fear, pain, difficulties, anger, happiness, sadness, humiliated, greedy, loneliness and ego are normal. Those feelings are related to one another. Every incident of our life could be favorable or in otherwise, depending on ways and mean of each individual facing it. I paint this series with the element of “Bubu” such as structure, shape, form, texture combined with human expression and movement as subjects in my artworks.
THE MYSTICAL JOURNEY SERIES This series is about our journey in our life. The important thing is how we manage our life and how the journey of our soul goes through it. This is about a journey to find something good that already in ours. Finding is difficult. Sometimes you can touch and feel it and sometimes you don’t. This is a reality of our life. Searching. If all of us know what and why God is creating us, then we will know our job in here. Did our lives are accompanied to our Creator or our life just a life.
SIRI TARI TEMPU R [THE DANCE BATTLE SERIES] This series is about a Malay Traditional self-defense called Silat. I adapted the powerful and graceful of the movement during their performance. Usually I use a very fast and a smooth movement to create my artworks therefore this self-defense inspires me.