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Mulyana silihtonggeng Menabur Awan √ signed √ dated √ certificated
(b. Sumedang, W. Java, 1980) (Sowing the Clouds)
2020 Rp. 7 - 10.500.000
oil on canvas
150 x 100 cm US$ 483 - 725

At the end of 2019 there was a hot season, the dry season went on for a long time and the
rainy season never appeared. Many people longed for the rainy season to appear and for the
dry season to end. That gave the artist ideas in the form of imagination to control, collect,
create, move and scatter clouds in the sky, rain will drop and the rainy season will come soon.
Of course we all know that rain that comes from the clouds, are actually one of the many
fortunes that the God Almighty provides for his creatures on earth. This idea was only made
into this painting in the beginning of 2020. When it was completed, it rained very hard all
around the city of Jakarta, indeed it was time that the rainy season arrived. That day many
parts of Jakarta were flooded. A friend criticized the artist, making an issue of the painting
vis-a-vis the floods. However it was just his imagination. How could he be blamed for causing
the floods? Signed and dated: 2020
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