MERABA MENJALAR MERANA by Metalhead Melankolis
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Medium: MIXED MEDIA
Dimensions: 8.5 x 16 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $222.00 USD
Status: available
This work is titled “Meraba Menjalar Merana”. Drawn from the Indonesian language, the phrase carries the meanings of groping, spreading, and suffering. It reflects the artist’s condition after parting with someone. It traces how a relationship, once formed organically through patience, awareness, tolerance, acceptance, anger, and forgiveness can unravel under the weight of nurtured ego. The work moves through that quiet aftermath, where what once grew gently now lingers, diffuses, and aches. The work diligently crafted using magazine cutouts and depressive episode by Metalhead Melankolis. Framed in A5 size.
Why collect this work?
Hands are stacked into a narrow, flame-like mass, making physical closeness appear excessive and difficult to disentangle rather than simply affectionate.
- The artist’s profile links collage with poetry and describes cutting printed matter as therapeutic. The catalogue relates this work to separation, an intention that helps explain its emphasis on attachment without determining every gesture.
- In the photograph, manicured fingers rise above palms, grips and folded hands, while two red-clad forearms form a tapering base. The uncertain ownership of each limb turns one apparent body into a crowd of competing actions.
- Documented magazine cutouts retain differences in scale, cropping and photographic lighting. Rather than concealing those disparities, the mixed-media construction uses them to make connection look assembled, precarious and open to rupture.
- At the catalogued dimensions of 8.5 by 16 centimetres, the work concentrates an unusually dense register of touch. It provides a focused case for considering when care, dependence and possession become visually indistinguishable.
About the Artist
Metalhead Melankolis
Metalhead Melankolis is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Mixed Media Collage. Based in Jakarta, ID.
Nationality: Indonesian
Metalhead Melankolis is a poet who has a strong attachment to the art of collage.
