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Golden Shaft (2017)
Bamboo, gold leaf, galvanize steel, clamps, wire
After concentration in a series of La Root is more synonymous with the mining of tin, I’ve started a new series of Raub which widely known in gold mining activities in 2016. Raub is a district and town in the state of Pahang, Malaysia. Gold mining started in 1889 by William Bibby under the Raub Australian Gold Mine (RAGM). Malay word “raub” means “scoop” which according to J.A. Richardson in his book, The Geology and Mineral Resourses of the Neighbourhood of Raub, Pahang, page 36, “People found that for every “dulang” (tray) of sand there was a handful (raub) of gold”. As a result, Raub became very famous in early of 20th century for its mining resource (gold) in Malaysia. In the piece “Golden Shaft” (installation is one of the major work in this series. The bamboo shafts shows the abstraction form of the shaft as the symbolic of “shaft mining technique” that used for gold mining in Raub. Basically, the whole installation is like the mining machine and the representation of digging out the natural resource from our country to overseas. In the other side, the bamboo that I used itself were growth originally in Raub.
Getaran Jiwa, Jeritan Batinku dan Semarak Hati (2016)
Karya ini diinspirasikan dari lagu-lagu Allahyarham P. Ramlee. Setiap tajuk pada karya-karya menpunyai mesej yang tersendiri dan universal oleh setiap masyarakat iaitu “Getaran Jiwa”, Jeritan Batinku dan Semarak Hati. Intipatinya begitu unik dan menjurus kepada ekspresi atau naluri cinta dan kasih sayang. Garfu dan saxophone yang digunakan di dalam siri karya ini merupakan idea di dalam filem “Ibu Mertuaku” yang mana klimaks dalam cerita ini, P.Ramlee terpaksa menggunakan sepasang garfu untuk cucuk mata beliau supaya menjadi buta. Perlambangan setiap karya dengan garfu adalah metafora yang berulangan serta berirama sedangkan garfu itu bersifat tajam dan agresif. Di dalam konteks ini, saya ingin mengaitkannya dengan situasi politik dan kerajaan buat masa ini di mana rakyat dalam menjalani kehidupan biasa sering kali memekik-mekik dan memanggil-manggil kerna sesuatu tekanan dari pihak tertentu yang bersifat agresif dan tajam sehingga menghasilkan rentak dan pergerakkan pola akan tetapi rakyat masih utuh.
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