The work ‘I Fry You I and II’ takes as its starting point of the contradiction that one can be accepted and loved in one place, but hated in another. For example; in Java, farmers kill squirrels because the animals destroy their coconut plantations. In the city, however, squirrels live in parks and are loved; people feed them. This contradiction applies not only to animals but also to people. With current transmigration and in multi-cultural societies, the border between love and hate is fragile and can easily be swayed one way or the other.
For ‘I Fry You I and II’, I collected squirrel and snake skins from farmers near Yogyakarta, who killed these animals because they consider them pests and a threat to their crops. I prepared the animal skins into leather, transforming the skins into a functional material in order to highlight these different cultural perceptions.