Siti Adiyati is one of the founding members of the Indonesian New Art Movement (Indonesian: Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (GSRB)) from 1975 to 1979. Notably, she is one of the two women artists actively involved with the GSRB, the other being the late Nanik Mirna. Most of the individuals in GSRB were young male artists from Bandung, Jakarta, and Yogyakarta. Jejak was one of several works that she showed at the second GSRB exhibition in 1977. Like her fellow GSRB artists, who were invested in the critical re-evaluation of Indonesian art and its relevance to Indonesian society, Adiyati used everyday materials to create objects that defied the categories of art but at the same time relatable to the masses. In Jejak, the rubber slippers (which was a cheap and popular footwear at the time) represented the path of the dream (desire/ambition) but the sequence of mirrors in the installation function as a continuous walking path and as moments of intense reflection, for one to look at oneself but also to look at or understand the Other and the environment, and ask what one can do for them. It is an invitation by the artist to look beyond the superficial: the surface of society is a happy one (especially if one has money).
