Kerana Nila Setitik

Year : 2019

Medium : Vessel, wooden stoll and rainwater

Dimension : 40(Dia) X 65(H) cm 


Intimacy commands for a closeness beyond closeness (Lauer, 2016). Intimacy in relationships overcomes the desire to fill in silence, and the mutedness leaves no space for psychological void between self and the other.

When feeling of oneness is realized with the other, this human experience shapes a wholeness; a unified sense of self. I explore the intimate relationship between human and nature through the experience of ruptured bonds and losses, as intimation and permutation processes to make sense of healing – to become whole and one again in the midst of this global climate emergency. An existential melancholia in reminiscing the lost habitualised physical and personal enactment of collecting rainwater emerges through this installation of everyday objects as a solastalgic response to the loss of intimacy between human-nature. Within this conceptualization, rainwater is both a manifestation of intimacy and revelation of distress. As human subjects implicated in the natural world, the intimacy between two psyches, the ecological and the human, could perhaps be restored through this dialectical inquiry: What distanced us?