In World 103, Japanese, rather than Western, culture dominates Southeast Asia.
Inspired by the works of the father of modern painting in Indonesia, this collection transports Affandi’s painting elements into the garments – as if it is out of frame.
This Exploration was contributed by Nikita Hilda Yusman, Sophia Ivana Satya and Pauline Nathalie Hadiputri (located in Singapore and Indonesia), developed from a World contributed by this group, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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