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When, as a college fresh(wo)man, I discovered that two dimensional works could no longer fulfill my need to express my inner thoughts, I chose to enroll in the Ceramics Program of the Fine Arts Department at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Working with clay opened new horizons for me. At first, I was interested in the rich texture of clay. I found this flexible medium is very suitable to express the metaphors of human emotions. Later, I was drawn to the contradiction between the strong sturdiness clay suggests and the fact that all ceramic pieces are fragile and bound to eventually break.  That contradiction led me to further explored this fragile qualities of clay. I began to take more risks in the forming and setting of my works. My works took thinner and thinner forms until I shifted to porcelain. Besides the intense fragility and the utmost care porcelain demands in handling, I discovered translucency. It was fascinating to see how light travels through the thin layers of porcelain. It was thrilling to set those vulnerable porcelain pieces into risky environments; like hanging them with light threads and presenting them in room completely dark except for several dim lights on the floor which were aimed to the 'floating' porcelain pieces to reveal their fragility and rich texture and the shades of their layers, as in the work titled 
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