Of the Kartini Day Essence 23.04.10 | 19.18
As we all might already know, sometimes we forget about the red marks in Indonesian calendar or about the historical days when we have this great distance from our homeland. Nevertheless we can be reminded through our internet connection. For example, I had just realized about the Kartini day from my friend’s status in Facebook. At that moment I decided to wear Kebaya as Javanese traditional clothes and asked one of my housemate, Oxana to take some pictures of me around Florence-Italy.
“Being lost” was my first point of call to lifted “foreign girl in the middle of foreign country” as a theme, emerged a gloomy ambiance as picture concept. Moreover she also wanted to express the depression feeling. As she said: a chance to stop hiding some feeling under the armour of games, and sadness is just a chance to make a stop, to put off all the masks, to stay one-on-one with yourself as you are. It is also gave a sense to describe women emancipation nowadays.
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