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Hanafi
INDONESIA
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Title
Media
Size
Year

In The Drawer...
Wood, paper, acrylic, transparent, nail
55 x 32 x 140 cm
2013

Hanafi
 


Hanafi's Cabinet Artwork, Indonesia


In the drawers we keep our valuables, keep our memories from the past safe and sound. Not only that, we even keep our feelings inside a drawer - which is made from a piece of canvas hooked unto some wood.

My paintings are like drawers that keep their own mysteries from myself. Everything on the canvas is an expression of those I have explained and of those as yet unexplained. Because they are inside a drawer, the key to which I keep in my own pocket...