more miscellaneous cutaways...

Christopher Basile's Blog — 28 September, 2015

Sorting through images from the past 4 weeks in Central Java and I thought I might share a few here...

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Music from Roti and Lombok

interviewing Kartika...

POSTED: 31 Dec 2015 - 19:12

As the editing for the "Kartika" documentary continues, I thought I would share some stills of Ibu Kartika from the 30 August 2015 interview footage that I am working on this week.

Kartika has represented herself in striking painted and sculpted self-portraits as merged with her father Affandi on her right, and her mother Maryati on her left, which she says is her way of expressing how indebted she feels to her parents, and how much h

the naked and the nude...

POSTED: 2 Oct 2015 - 19:03

In 1978 I read a collection of art historian Kenneth Clarke’s 1950s lectures, and the one on “The Naked and the Nude” left a lasting impression on me.

sketches...

POSTED: 30 Sep 2015 - 12:24

Here are a couple of quick self-portrait sketches Kartika made, one with glasses on and one without. I believe that one of these sketches will be used as a cover or frontispiece for a Kartika biography that is planned for publication sometime in Holla

The Kartika Affandi Project

more miscellaneous cutaways...

interviewing Kartika...

about Maryati Affandi...

the naked and the nude...

sketches...