If you are in your way to Batu, do not forget to visit sidomulyo Village. Located 4 kilometers southern the center of Batu, not only fresh air, you will meet also the many kinds of fresh plants.
You can see many kinds of decorative plants. Some of the natives create dragon-like tamarind tree. It is uniquely creative because the process could spend many years. They carve the tree to make it similar to dragon’s skin. Before the carving process, they bend the trees little by little as the body of snake.
Nowadays, the most popular species sold here is the Sound of Indian. As the name,its leaves are similar to eagle leather in Indian head. When the breeze blows, You can see them moving as an Indian riding horse.
Flowers and orchids still take the majority position. You can see many kinds of color with their own aroma sold here. If you want to have the flowers, you can buy it here. The price is so reasonable.
May 23rd, 2006
Seeing Wahyu Nugroho’s paintings firstly. we will face the pictures of unusual object change the reality. The picture of human will never be the same. Some animals also have their own sketch in the hand of this born Pasuruan painter.
To color his paintings, not only from Indonesian culture, he also borrows many parts of foreign cultures. In his works, we can see the writing similar to Egyptian hieroglyph, a background of persian paintings, and many parts of Chinese culture.
As the object, he takes many crowds as the center of attention. We can see the hump of masks, people, and symbols in his works. Sometimes, they are not well arranged and they seem as a puzzle for every eye seeing it.
Recently, he is in his mood to draw symmetrical paintings. As his main object is a crowd, he halves it accurately to ease our eyes. It helps us so since the idea is still so complex to observe in a minute.
All of them, sometimes, make his works are difficult to interpret. we need extra-thought to get the idea. But, as the death of author in literary works, it is free for us to interpret his works. If our idea is far away from his, it is not a big matter since we still get the moral value.
May 23rd, 2006