Genius Loci. J akarta Series
A Zine about Film Photography
6°12’52.63”S, 106°50’42.47”E “Of people stuck in their rush, of society who mind their own, of time flies too fast, of stories made and remade, of feelings that can never be explained, God forgives Jakarta.”
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Genius Loci.
Genius Loci in classical Roman religion, means the protective spirit of a place. Christian Norberg-Schuluz on “Genius Loci - Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture” splited spirit of a place into 2 parts, Landscape and Settlement. Including Space and Character as the forms of it. Space refers to every 3 dimensional forms that created the tangible things. And Character refers to the atmosphere of the place, the spatial feelings, more like intangible things. Simply, Genius Loci is a feeling that reminds you about the place, whether it comes from the memories, culture, human interaction, society, and the physical of the architecture itself.
For about 6 months, I had spent my time living in Jakarta, a city that never sleeps they said. 24/7, looks like everyone always has their own business to take care of. “Sleep is just for the weak!”, a famous words that spontaneously popped-up in my mind wondering how is life really going behind those beautiful sky scrapers with the lights that never goes out, standing massively like they are in a competition to prove that I am the only one who can touch the heaven! Jakarta, a huge magnet for those who wants to be the money miners, or maybe for those sandwich-generation that are on their endeavour to escape from their unfortunate circumstance. Walking fast and racing around to catch the public transportations is kind of already become such perpetual errand for some people. And apparently, I become a part of these people, but the only difference is, it is not a perpetual errand for me, it is just for a temporary period of time. Every time I look outside through the window, those beautiful sky scrappers are just suddenly turns into a background. Guess what I see in front of my eyes? Another reality, the true side of Jakarta. Slums, dirty river, traffic jam, air pollution, are the landscapes that make up the scenery along the way. It is always interesting to observe every corner and every tiny bit of the events that happens in Jakarta. Its society, culture, architecture, or even just seeing Ondel-Ondel doing those kind of street performance is always an interesting thing to have an eye for. There is always something to remind to, despite of all the chaos, I feel like Jakarta is still worth to have some place in my heart to remember. Time flies, and memories seem to get a lot. And for about that time, I’ve been trying to draw all these memories just to make sure, I can visit them later in future days if I want to. I chose to draw it using film rolls as the canvas, capturing moments that when I look up again in the future, my mind would happily vrecall some of these good old days in Jakarta with its very own unique story. Here it is, some pictures that I think could represent Genius Loci spirit inside Jakarta. Thank you for your time. Cheerio!
Gear.
Camera ------------
Canonet QL17 GIII (Rangefinder)
Film
------Fujicolor C200 Fuji Superia 400 Kodak Gold Agfa Vista 200 Ilford HP5 Plus (Pushed +1)
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Sometimes, pictures can speak louder than words.
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