Image size: 47.0 x 35.0 cm,
Image size: 52.0 x 39.5 cm (with border 79.5 x 67.5 cm)
Originally from Cirebon, Haryadi Suadi is a well-known printmaker trained at the art training institution in Bandung where he studied printmtmaking under the tutelage of Mochtar Apin from the late 1950s until mid-1960s. Unlike the earliest generation of Bandung artists, such as Apin, Ahmad Sadali, and A.D. Pirous who worked closely with Western abstraction, Haryadi's prints engaged more closely with the works of Japanese printmaker, Shiko Munakata, and local languages of representation informed by Javanese and Cirebonese cultural and material tradition. Haryadi created only a few self-portrait for his prints, and in many of them, he incorporates the sinuous calligraphic lines derived from isim or talismanic writings that circulate widely in Cirebon, Java, and broader Indo-Malay archipelago. In this print, Haryadi depicted himself as being formed by and inscribed with calligraphic lines. One of his hand is raised with his palm facing the viewer. This pose is likely derived from Haryadi's collection of images depicting Chinese medicinal diagrams of human body.
