How do you do your time?
A friend asked another friend over dinner. It’s interesting because I also observed the way I do my time. Like many these days, we spend quite a lot of time in computer. Not just for online stuff but I’m brushing up on my Photoshop skill these days. It has become a new challenge for me to explore different kind of creativity. So that’s what I do these days spending half day in computer while multitask doing household chores that I cannot drop even in holiday season. I don’t mind.
Being in cocoon so long, I also have the urge to go out to meet people, to see happenings. My friend and I attended an art exhibition opening in a well-known gallery in Ubud last night. The gallery is clever as they often had new exhibition in the end of the year. It’s refreshing! So the artworks displayed last night. Paintings with (bule) cow as main theme and metal sculptures in the form of dog. Both artists are Balinese but have been living in Yogya over eight years for study and work now. Interesting, they even have adopted Yogya accent very well.
I don’t usually start a conversation but looking at shy artists I was interested to just approach them and have a chat. So I had one-on-one chat with each one. The painter who paints cow was concerned about cows killing to produce our food. What a special concern? He explained how he got the idea well. And the dog sculpture artist got the idea after he lost his dog in Yogya – a city where keeping a dog is not easy because dogs are worth stolen. Also, because he is familiar with dog’s behavior so he feels comfortable to create art with dog poses. Yes, the dog sculptures looked really good especially as an installation. It needs an atmosphere to display, the artist explained further why he doesn’t sell his work individually but set of three or six.
I was considering to leave the gallery although the owner invited my friend and me to have dinner in the restaurant of their beautiful boutique resort in the back of the art gallery. Good my friend, the exhibition curator, caught and led me to the restaurant so I didn’t have space to escape back to my preferred cocoon. I enjoyed every bit of chat in the end. We shared table with the curator and a well-known French jeweler lives in Ubud. I call him the Tiffany of Ubud for the price. For the work, he is beyond.
It’s a nice way to spend an end of a year. Spending time with self and but also with other inspiring individuals.
Today is the last day of 2009. I didn’t sleep well last night just because of so many new ideas for starting the 2010! The year has not even started but I’m already bubbling. I’m happy!
The metal dog.