April 01, 2006
Editing: The Diary of R.S.
Client: Laksmi Pamuntjak
Title: The Diary of R.S.: Musings on Art
Publisher: KataKita
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From the back cover:
Art and memory; polygamy and a 65-year-old woman; pornography and the life of a prostitute through the eyes of a dwarfish painter; “reality” seen through the eyes of a failed stand-up comic; the Ultimate Other Woman and the painter of dreams and memories; an artist and his nine self-remakes, a famous embrace reread; a child drawing through life with a single working mother; Hector and Andromache for the twenty-first century. Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Grosz, Dali, Beckmann, de Chirico.Edited by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
The various forms that make up this collection of short stories --- half-dream, half-parable; dramatic script; half-thriller, half-romance; poem; ironic commentary; freewheeling meditation, as well as other heartfelt lessons in seeing --- are Laksmi Pamuntjak’s own travel stories in worlds that open up in that solitary moment of connection she experiences with a painting. In the words of Suhayl Saadi: "The paint is the substrate; it’s the stories that count."