Djoko Pramono

I come from Indonesia, born in a beautiful small town flanked by two large, powerful and fertile volcanoes. My education is in architecture. Drawing and designing become the basis for thinking. In the field of architecture we are always taught to think about truth, strength and usefulness, these three elements will give birth to beauty and love. Life is love, life is the greatest gift. In life we can feel death, but in death we cannot feel life. In life we can create heaven or hell. Real life is now, this moment, not yesterday or what is to come. God created this universe perfectly, beautifully, honestly, full of love. All living creatures race towards death, true death is death that leaves traces of goodness and love. My ideas and art always lead to love. Because art itself is love, love for absolute truth which sometimes feels bitter. Love inspires the bitter to become aesthetic. With love we can have feelings and ethics in building civilization.

Faculty of Architectural Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia