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Indonesian artist on a wheelchair shares a story of his paintings being stolen

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This footage was filmed and produced 7 June 2021.
Ugo Haryono is a painter, musician, performer, and has served at the Jakarta Arts Institute (IKJ). At the age of 5 years he was stricken with polio. The disease made one leg shrink to a smaller size. Since then, he has had to accept the reality of living his life in a wheelchair. Almost all of his paintings are abstractions of urban space.

Translation of interview:
"Drifted by flood waters, yes, I made another one. Ha ha ha. So this is in small form, on a small scale, but I can enlarge it again, in the form of a statue or a painting. And in my imagination, shapes like this also provoke sound. Because I also like playing music, there are sound illusions. This can be hm-a-hm-a-hm-hm-hm.... Sometimes literary expressions also appear, not-tak-tata-tatah-tah.... So this is what is, audio-visual in nature. The visual technique can be seen. So this visual can also unite sounds, not a complete imaginary one. Well, there can be the sound of drums, the sound of primitive music. Well, this is something I used to be afraid of. But now no, this is my spiritual entertainment. Maybe other people are also afraid to see this, but if I don't, instead, sympathy, affection, and respect for God's creations arise.
This is for example. Later this can will change. Hmm, like these cans have also changed. Then there are more, woods like this, the name becomes the illusion of flowers, what is it, a bouquet. so used wood, used cans, it will cause interest, well even from items that are no longer used. So I don't make it again because it's called reproduction. I made it in another form. Maybe made of iron, plastic, sack, or whatever. The important thing is that there are independent works, one by one."

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