Jika dunia ini aku punya

Hazim carves heads from whole logs of wood, leaving much of the log visible around the face. Each head is pulled out of the trunk with the adze marks left where they fell, the crown of the head scorched dark, the lower portion of the log often kept rough so that the figure seems to emerge from the wood rather than be separated from it. One head sits in a ring of its own wood shavings, the waste of its making deliberately left around its feet. The faces are tired. Eyes lowered or closed, mouths set, the carved expression of someone after a long day. Hazim cites David Fincher's Seven as a reference, drawn to the film's portrait of lives trapped in systems that decide their hours, their roles, their direction. Jika dunia ini aku punya, the title says. If this world were mine. The work asks how much of any of it ever is.