Date : June 1st – June 4th, 2007
Location : Hall Street Gallery, Savannah, USA (booklet)

The Nature
In this image, I bring back my memory regarding what thoughts and feelings I experienced while backpacking in Pisgah National Park, North Carolina, in Spring 2006. My body and mind had been pushed to their physical limit, and I started visualizing the impact that the elements could have on nature. Through that memory, I visualize my photographs, at that time, into a short scene and re-capture them into one frame of a new photograph. My idea is to visualize and simulate my experiences physically and psychologically at that point, and at the same time, capture my imaginative moments and illustrate them to the audience through revived photographs. For example, in “Catching the wind” photographs, I illustrate my imagination of a tree, whose branches are growing in the direction. This imagination was pictured when I was sitting exhaustedly and looking at the scene, and trying to entertain myself from the frustration after a long, tiring hike.

Catching The Wind

“The human body has its maximum resistance limit. When it reaches the peak of the limit, the unconscious mind will overcast the logical mind; imagination becomes a hallucination.”
Eric Dalimarta

CUL-DE-SAC

“On the journey to the destination, once the body and mind are worn out, the path will become the route without an end. Nothing that the body can do unless it keeps walking, in need of thinking, or feeling.”
Eric Dalimarta

Structure & Perception
In a city, buildings and structures were built not only as a function but also as a character that is able to talk for itself as an individual among others. These photographs show how I see structure in the city while creating my own perspective for every object within its own role in the photograph, thus creating its own story that shows my portrayal. In this bodywork, I illustrate my imagination at the time I looked at these buildings/structures, perceiving them differently, and capturing the shapes and perspectives through my lens as my imaginative eye. Then, based on the photograph, I recreated new scenery which is built using visual effects as a brush that paints on the photograph. For example, at the time I took “Playground” photograph, the structure’s shapes reminded me of a playground and stimulated my childhood memory, the memory of me that liked to run, jump, swing, and slide on many kinds of objects.

Playground

“Childhood experiences are one of the most everyday memories
that will always be embedded in the human mind, even unconsciously.
Whether they are good or bad, they will affect one’s manner, thoughts, and point of view.”
Eric Dalimarta

Living Room

“Sometimes human perception is not logical and realistic. Memories, feelings,
and experiences often cover the perception within the brain analyses.”
Eric Dalimarta

Human Body & Facial Expression
In these photographs, I show what I see, feel, and believe about human facial and body expressions and how that can be meant as a different representation. Human faces are distorted and given “makeup“ to show the person’s expressions and moods. The human shape is able to be conveyed and translated into a visual language, which is capable of showing a different understanding of the story behind its expression. For example, when I talked or explained something to someone, occasionally I imagined that the person’s face could not be the real expression of their emotion. One could hide the emotion or the feeling from one’s previous event. In this photograph, I am trying to merge those expressions into one face.

Face Evolution

“Human facial expression is one of the most expressive and complicated among others.
Every single expression can represent a blend of many emotions at the same time.
It can hide the real emotion behind the face, but it cannot tell a lie.”
Eric Dalimarta