Perfect Piece

On how you describe the feeling of ‘meet’ the ideal piece of art ? love ? Awe ? admire ? the truth is they ‘communicate’ with silence words of perfection, through every details, every color composition, and even its imperfection seems to enhance the other parts, become the agent of contrast, perfect in its own term.

This piece of art is on loan , belong to Mrs. Mis, the owner of House Batik Original Pamekasan, the supplier of fine hand-drawn Maduranese Batik and a friend of mine.

It’s not antique, at least not in the standard of ‘old’ in age, but certainly it’s not new piece since this one’s once belonged to her mother. The composition’s actually quite common, bouquet with ‘nitik’ finishing, the simple two-tone with no color playing very common in Maduranese Batik.

But it all change with the perfect execution.

Starting with unusual combination of two-color, deep salem-red that’s rare in Batik Madura, perfect lines, perfect dots, simple and only few ‘isen-isen’ patterns involved that feels almost restrained.

If one could use the word ‘flaws’ in this art object, only because its maker (deliberately) avoid using isen-isen technique that has three-dimension effect, instead using super neat dots and lines to make each leaves perfectly execute. Perfection rules!.

PS : if you happens to be in Pamekasan, you could consider to visit Ms. Mis in her “House Batik Original” , 2nd floor Pasar Batik , Jokotole Street Number 17. You’ll find collector’s class piece along with batik for your everyday needs.