Berlin – Daniel Paraswoody lives in Berlin for two years, Germany. Earlier, this person, born in Sukabumi, has long settled in Lombke.
For almost two decades, he pursued the world of graffiti. “In fact, I really like graffiti from a similar rebellion. That time in 2005, hits, right, ”explained Daniel, who is better known as Emet, as quoted from DW IndonesiaMonday (1/7/2025).
On the walls of his house, several works were fixed among the canvas. On one of the canvas is implicitly, the image of a fast food restaurant from the United States, as well as soda in combination with the image of a flowering assessment house. “Oh, I just want to criticize why young people in Indonesia are so proud that they eat in fast food restaurants,” he explained, interspersed with laughter.
Randing becomes a source of inspiration for color palette Emet
Randing inspired Emet in his work. “I was able to go to Padang to learn how to make rendang directly from the Union there, although I tried to cook in Berlin, wow, coconut,” the spirit explained, “the taste is in the corner of my memory in my childhood, I have been brought to the Padang restaurant, I can choose only one side dish – I never changed it to choose a rendang.
According to Emet, Randing is not just a tasty meat typical of Indonesia. “The rending is taken from the process of impact on the legs – the cooking process, coconut milk (which is full of boiler), prepared until it is reduced to SAT. There is a process to become sitting from Gule – Kalio – to be black rendang, ”explained the artist -graph, who also likes to prepare this“ such a combination of rendang flowers, I attracted my works. ” That is why his work is often stained with Rendang flowers: burgundy from chili, yellow from turmeric, green from lemongrass and beige from coconut milk.
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Little fish in the Great Sea
Of course, it is not easy to migrate to the city with a long History of graffiti. When Berlin was divided into Western and East Berlin in 1961, both regions were divided by the Berlin wall.
The Berlin wall became the canvas of the community of West Berlin to express and bear political criticism through graffiti. The development of art in the city took off to heaven after the Berlin wall collapsed in 1989.
Now, in almost every corner, visitors can see graffiti as models of blockbusters, simple tags, bubble letters, Wildstyle and graphite for characters. According to estimates, in Berlin there are about 15,000 graffiti artists, reports Daily Gassaphtion Berliner Zeitung.
For Emets, migrate to cities filled with graffiti -artists, they feel like a small fish in the Big Ocean. “But I am still not focused on competitions, more to create a network,” he answered, “maybe multiplied exhibitions outside Berlin, because this city already has an artist if the exhibition turns out to be great opportunities.”
Emetes often discusses with the community in its area, Pankov. Thanks to minor discussions in city parks or in other public places, Emets find the work of “New Rooms”. He also met with Katja Hellköter and the founder of Jan Siefke in the Creative Community “C-Space” in Pancow/Weisensee.
CSPACE opens up a place for cooperation for artists in its studio. “It was a lot of time, we want to update the front gate of our studio, which was rotted, it will take almost three years to convince the owner of the building, so that we can clean it and make new graffiti,” explained that “we accidentally met Daniel in the marten community and were ready to make graffiti on our walls.”
Although it does not emphasize the color of the rendang, as usual, because it tunes the color of the C-cosm building, the work of Crema Emet amazes Yana. “Cream tells the story of the transfer of people, meetings, travel, ties, and many little things that tell stories in this fresco.”
According to Yana, the work of Emet has a cheerful character, he is very happy to cooperate with the artist from Sukabumi.
Crema was made as part of CSPace cooperation with Berlin Asia Arts Arts Club on Pankow ArtSpring, May 3, 2025. It took two days to complete the work.
When “legal” fresco is difficult to find
In 2023, one of the providers of public transport services in Berlin removed about 150 thousand square meters of graffiti in his train. In the same year, the supplier of German public transport services, Deutsche Bahn, suffered a loss of up to 12 million euros (227 billion rupees) from these acts of vandalism.
“The one who painted on the trains was really fast, wow, I did not look for adrenaline, I painted only legal walls if I wanted to draw permission,” Einet explained.
More and more graffiti artists in Berlin turned out to be that legal walls never trampled enthusiasts. “Once in the queue in the park, which has a legitimate Tombok for graffiti, as in Maunerpark. Eh, I just finished for someone, who is ready for the appearance (with a new picture), is a difficult story about his experience in Berlin. He also moved the legal wall to the canvas of the picture “so that he could continue to work in efforts in turn.”
Some of the Emets revived the walls of the cafe in Berlin, manufacturers of electric vehicles in Brandenburg, even spread to the medium of paintings and sculptures.
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Open “Warung Pop-up” to hide the longing
As migrants, many of them miss the homeland. To treat the desire, Emetts and his friends in Berlin opened Bhinnecayon every weekend.
Every week, the Bhinnekayon kiosk menu may vary. “This is actually the initiative of the friends of artists in Berlin. So, whoever wants to cook, I will make a poster in accordance with the character of the cook, ”said Emet.
Of the kiosks with green beans, a goat rumble, Tongsen, he always managed to attract the attention of the Indonesian people in Berlin. Not only food, sometimes this “magic” kiosk also shows the work of Indonesian artists to music concerts.
“It’s nice to answer the sense of the missing in his hometown,” said Emet.
Playing work in Berlin, forcing Emets not to stop working. In addition, a multivolum artist, preparing to “show” at the next exhibition, on June 27, I will be an exhibition in Balchow, this is the first time as a Muslim, I have the opportunity to be exhibited in the church, the theme of Spielplatz (ed. Playground), ”he explained with enthusiasm.
The exhibition will be held at Stadtkirche Malchow until September 14, 2025.
