POST RIMBUN

This installation was commissioned by Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum exploring Bali and its influence on Chinese artists throughout the 20th century. Rather than responding through nostalgia, this work addresses today’s island challenges.

Long idealized as a sacred tropical paradise, Bali has undergone rapid transformation. In the south, rice fields and forests have given way to dense urban development, replacing the landscape's layered greens with shades of grey.

Drawing from traditional Balinese landscape painting, this textile piece is based on photographs taken during treks through the forests of northern Bali. The pigments used for the handprint were made entirely from construction debris: crushed brick, ground concrete, rust, and fragments of broken pavement.

This work is built on a contradiction: the image depicts the Bali that continues to be imagined, while the pigments embody the material reality of its transformation. It questions how tourism and global economic systems extract the island's aesthetic while externalizing its environmental cost.