Dance of Colors by I Wayan Sudarsana (Yansen)

The colors flowed so soft, spaces that they formed seemed to not be the end of the stream but more to the long journey that have yet to see its end; or even maybe without no end.

I Wayan Sudarsana or most known by his nickname Jansen, the artist from Bali with his sieving technique allowed that kind of visualization to manifest on his abstract works. Through the sieving technique, Jansen let the colors move free, making the visualization created on the canvas as colors that roam free in search of their medium.

“Here, Jansen is nothing more than a media. I’m even confused whether to sign my works or nor” Jansen said.

By sieving technique, the intensity of closeness between Jansen and his works seem to unite more. Holding the canvas with both hands while sieving makes him and his works have absolutely no distance. It may well be assumed as if the canvas space and body media had become one soul. In this matter, it looks as if Jansen avoids to “damage” his soul representation with a personal ego in form of a signature.

On one side, Jansen had also construct representation spaces of the soul, thought, and dreams in the macro-cosmos scope. The space he had constructed does not just tell on “personality”, but on his canvas Jansen constructs a “collective” space where the dream and thought represented could also be everybody’s dreams and thoughts. Isn’t the dream in freedom that leads to happiness is also everybody’s dream?

“If possible, try to take a picture of it at a very close range, and enjoy. It is very rare that you experience such freedom. And be assured that we weill meet in a dream,” Jansen elaborated.

So, should Jansen be selfish by “clustering” the dream that actually belongs to public through a signature? Jansen’s works that flow, freely, calmly, peacefully, and bring joy are the representation of every man’s dream, and Jansen is very much aware of it.

A thousand interpretation can be created as freely as the flow of colors. Jansen allowed the observer of his works with their own “readings”. Jansen “frees” his works from titles that may lead one to a certain thought. It was told that one day during a painting on the spot session, a shepperd approached Basuki Abdullah. “Nice,” said the shepperd. Basuki loved that; he loved his works to be enjoyed rather than to be “discussed” by all sorts of theory. The same thing goes for Jansen’s works. Just enjoy them.