Pictures by Derek Bacon
Cover illustration for ‘Jakarta—History of a Misunderstood City’ by Herald Van Der Linde.
I once lived in Jakarta, so it’s good to have a picture on a book about it. The illustration used is part of a much longer pen and ink drawing I made a while back. Big thanks to Anita Teo @marshallcavendish.
Another pen and ink from 1998. This one did get used in the book, at least in the first edition. I’m not sure if it made it to the later reprints.
A print of my Jakarta street drawing at 57 x 9 inches on its way to Feny in Portland. Thank you Feny.
This is a print of a long (83 x 12 inches) pen & ink drawing I made in 1998 for a book I wrote about Jakarta, but which was never used in the end. Drawn with a Rotring Isograph if you remember them. Great pens. If you’re into pens.
Terry Collins. For years, Terry was one of the tallest things you could find in Jakarta. I made this picture to celebrate his 30 years there. One morning, about a year later, I got an email saying Terry was gone. Then, later still, I heard they’d used this picture at his memorial service.
Drawing of students at EEP in Jakarta. This one is drawn in ink, pencil, colour pencil, dry brush, charcoal and ballpoint pen.
Blok M from Hotel Falatehan. “It’s no oil painting” as Ian would say. It really isn’t.
If you’d like to hear how Blok M sounds, you can listen here.
The last time I saw Bapak Made, he was really far gone from the dementia.
Article in Kompas about the current exhibition in Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, featuring my collaboration ‘Indonesia Sejak Saat Itu‘ with Elisabeth Ida Mulyani.
