Hi Merle, There're so many beautiful textiles in Indonesia. Each of our province would have its own uniqueness, not only batik.
Well I guess we can't compare our images/impressions of Jakarta because you don't know about nowadays Jakarta and I know nothing about 1974 Jakarta (wasn't born yet :-P) Siska -----Original Message----- From: Merle Lester <merlewiit...@yahoo.com> Sender: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:44:25 To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com<Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Reply-To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Zen] Amri Yahya, a batik trailblazer siska..i believe this is the artist's work i have purchased in 1974... i lived in sydney in 1974 and my partner barry and i set out back packing in june 1974 .. bus overland to darwin, flew to east timor..spent 2 weeks in dilli.. 2 weeks in bali...then onto indonesia... was going to go to sumatra and java... travelled by train from jakarta to thailand... mainly spent about 2 weeks in each location... indonesia seems now like a haze after all these years..... from thailand to london then 3 week bus tour around europe.. since then i have been in may 2005 to beijing, helsinki, tallinn, berlin and hong kong.. in 2006 and 2008 did 16 days garden and temple tours through out china where few westerners have been with a renowned australian botanist, peter valder i migrated to australia from germany in 1949..my estonian parents fled the russians from tallinn in 1944.. i am a retired art high school teacher i became interest in zen buddhism in my early 20's merle http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2002/11/23/amri-yahya-a-batik-trailblazer.html
