I am Indonesian
2025
MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins

Experimental \ Education \ Print

This is the midterm assesment video essay.

This essay explores the formation and mechanics of meaning through exploring a Third Culture Kid’s ambiguous identity of East and West, viewing it through the lenses of modernism, postmodernism, and christian triperspectivalism. The video raises questions on how meaning behind identity is formed.

Full Video Essay

Overall material of the “undo-nimation” on Adobe Illustrator

Cover design of multiple “Indonesian” Square word calligraphy

Layers of my national identity

Square word calligraphy iterations based on cultural topics

Research on my reference, Xu Bing’s Square word calligraphy that inspired cross-cultural semiotic interactions and blendings

Research material and readings

Combination of Ogden-Richards’ triangle of meaning with the Eames Brothers’ concept of noise and meaning transmission

Ursula le Guin’s concept of co-influencing meaning communication, combined with Eames Brothers’ noise concept

Christian Triperspectival structure of meaning making proposed by John Frame’s trinitarian theology

Some more stuff

Featured Work

\¹Cultural Fragments \²Cultural Fragment Cards \³Saé’kin \⁴Majapahit \⁵JSO: From Us, to You \⁶The Apple Tree and Lillies of the Valley \⁷ARS SONI \⁸#VALUE! Unknown Quantities \⁹FIRES \ and more...