Artist's Note

I was born in Jakarta, brought up in a plain, nondescript family amidst many others who struggled to survive in a large urbanized city. The glaring societal imbalance and chaos remains a prominent problem today and I feel strongly for the common people who are disadvantaged and suffer the most. I empathized with them hence I paint to express my take on this plight as a social commentary. In Labyrinth for instance, it implies how simple people are trapped by rapid and complicated changes in urban society, the inability to extricate themselves from the maze signifying how they cannot liberate themselves.