Metamorphosis
The agricultural culture that was interconnected with the Seblang ritual was in danger. the last rice field in Bakungan that was under threat by the rapid rate of property development in the surrounding area.
Saras Dewi
The grass and wildflowers were silent around a tomb. Waving in the morning breeze, they looked as if they were guarding the gravestones. The surrounding land was still humid from the rain in the previous night. I knelt down and looked at the wild plants, from sawi langit (Cyanthillium cinereum), picah leaves(Desmodium gangeticum) and and meniran(Phyllanthus niruri), which spread out in all directions and filled the area.
In this moment, I thought of the work of poet and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe titled TheMetamorphosisof Plants (1790). I thought of how he had described the changes that occur in plants and their unique life cycle, as well as his perspective that placed humans as part of the living wonder of the plant world, and not separate.