22 Artworks for Mother’s Day (22 December): 22 Karya Ibu untuk Hari Ibu
Marking this Hari Ibu (Mother’s Day) in Indonesia on 22nd December 2021, we have curated a selection of 22 art works by Ratmini. Ratmini sketched and painted hundreds of landscapes throughout her life. But she also made jewellery, quilts, puppets and much more. In 2017, we created a small book of 92 creations to mark her 92nd birthday. Here are 22 of them, accompanied by a poem:
My mother has a gift of love,
Expressed
With a stroke of paint
A sliver of chalk
A drop of ink
She conjures beauty
A sight unseen
92 years gone by
She has made (more than) ninety two things
Of beauty
A testament of her witness
To places voyaged
Friends greeted
And landscapes beheld
Today we celebrate her talent
Her Midas touch
A swing at the universe
Saying, I am here
And I see you
As you see me
A thing of beauty
92 beautiful things
My mother made
Living inside and outside us
Shining a light
Of love and hope
Creation and re-creation
Parvati, Lakshmi, Saraswati
92 beautiful things
My mother made
Is a trail of living
A life full of giving
Unrelenting, unstopping
Untired hands crafting
A passion for being
Join me,
on this journey
To witness
92 beautiful things
My mother made
Ratmini sketched landscapes and people of the many places she visited, within Indonesia and overseas.
Accompanying her husband to various meetings and conferences, Ratmini always brought her sketch book and her small camera. From Kenya, Pakistan, Nepal, Peru and Saudi Arabia, she explored the roads less traveled, always rewarded with a big serving of humanity and glorious nature, reflected back in her beautiful acrylic canvas.
