Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Prints replace originals at art exhibition

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Prints replace originals at art exhibition

Agnes Winarti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Much to the disappointment of visitors, the Jakarta Historical Museum is keeping several original paintings in storage and displaying prints instead.

"I thought I would be able to see real paintings. I could find prints like these on the internet," said Hermawan Pagarintan, a graphic design student at the University of Tarumanegara in West Jakarta, after visiting the museum Wednesday.

"We can't look at the texture of the paintings and the brushstrokes used to create them," Herman, 21, said.

The Jakarta Historical Museum, also known as Fatahillah Museum, on Jl. Taman Fatahillah, West Jakarta, is currently exhibiting 60 oil paintings of governor generals painted between 1610-1942, when the country was ruled by the Dutch.

The original versions of the paintings were only displayed on the opening day of the exhibition on Oct. 30.

For the remainder of the exhibition, which will end on Nov. 30, photographs of the paintings will be displayed.

"For security reasons, we can't display the original paintings during the exhibition. We have to prevent damage and theft," the head of Fatahillah Museum, MR Manik, told The Jakarta Post.

He said during the exhibition, the original paintings would be kept in the museum's store room.

Dentist Deddy Giri said he visited the museum Wednesday after seeing an advertisement about the exhibition in a newspaper.

"But the exhibition isn't like what was described in the advertisement," he said.

Hermawan, who visited the museum with a friend, said the poor condition of other paintings in the museum was disappointing.

"Most paintings on display haven't been taken care of, including paintings of King Salomon and Dutch East Indies governor generals Petrus van der Parra and J.P. Coen," he said.

Some 20 original paintings are displayed at the museum on a daily basis. However, their frames are damaged and covered in dust.

Manik said signs instructing visitors not to touch the paintings were insufficient.

"Many visitors are driven to touch the paintings in spite of the signs. This damages the paintings," he said.

Hermawan said old paintings in other parts of the world were cased in glass and kept at a certain temperature to prevent paint from peeling off.

Despite the fact the exhibition's draw cards are locked away, some visitors to the Jakarta Historical Museum on Wednesday said they enjoyed the exhibition nonetheless.

"Although they are not the real paintings, they still provide a lot of background information about the 300 years of Dutch colonialism in this country," physical therapist Amy Ayalloore from the U.S. said.

"And the drawings on the walls are very beautiful," she said, pointing to an unfinished wall mural started in 1974 by the late Hariyadi S.

Hariyadi, from a generation of painters including Affandi and Sudjojono, painted several of the museum's walls with the theme Jakarta in the Past.