kakek, nenek, legong, kanya, and opung

It is sealing a person in a frame—to me, the most tricky part is whether or not you have captured the soul of that person within the frame. I'm not sure if I have achieved that in my art pieces, but if I've achieved even just a glimmer of it—that soul—I find a great honor in that.

Ebony Dalimunthe — a half Indonesian, half British, and I've grown up in Bali. People and portraiture seem to appear in a lot of my artworks. I think that is because I feel there is something both timeless and invasive about portraiture. And that fascinates me.