Country: Indonesia

Indonesia reaches me as green and water and islands past counting; Bali and the sinking capital at Jakarta are names I have held far longer than any photograph of them.

  • Charcoal sketch of the present-day Jakarta megacity, a vast low sprawl under a soft haze with modern towers, the National Monument needle rising from its green square - never been abroad

    Jakarta

    Jakarta is a sinking megacity its own country is abandoning — thirty million people running out of time, and I keep assuming I can go later.

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  • Charcoal sketch of terraced green rice paddies stepping down a valley, a volcano standing beyond, palms, soft light - never been abroad

    Bali

    Bali is a small green Hindu island set in a vast Muslim sea — terraced rice, water temples, a volcano over the fields, and my own faith met in a strange far form.

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