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66 Sleepers was an imagination of an old western architectural look motel located
somewhere in Oklahoma state. This title is the fourth title and just completed
in the last October 2004.
After the government decided to close down the old route 66, the economic
condition of business sites like 66 Sleepers became dark. In the old days,
66 Sleepers was one of well known motel alongside the route that was always
visited by travelers including bikers. Along with the closure of the old
route 66, the economic prediction became an unpredictable one. That's
sobbing.
The story of memory motel began when a man named Al came by for
a rest. Al stop his red painted Road King there. After 8 hours
riding his motorbike along the old 66 route, he felt so exhausted
and wanted to sleep for a night. Al, unfortunately, was unable
to take a rest there that night. 66 Sleepers was already closed
and intended to be sold by its owner! The price is only $ 1! Although
only $1, no one was interested to buy the site. It's probably
caused by the situation that did not support people to run such
business in a lonely place this time. That's actually very sobbing.
He can only grumble and sleep outside in his red sleeping bag
just like another motoriders that came before him. It seems that
they had the same nightmare that night. So bad.
Just like another title in my project, 66 sleepers was also a very
clear example for us that there are a fight between old and new
value. It's probably happened not only here in Indonesia, but also
in other part of this world. In this case, an old building or an
old historical site was always defeated if compared with a new modern
one. It was defeated in almost all aspects. The new one was deemed
more productive and economical. This statement would not be exposed
if all related party (government, people and many independent foundation)
can clearly think and work together in managing such old site.
In this ultra modern era, we can still try to find the benefit of old
sites (historic, social, education and economic). The finding of
these benefits have to be supported by all. That's very important
to raise the subjects mentioned above in order to raise the welfare
of all people. That's more brilliant rather than building a perception
of a useless historical garbage.
In the process of making such artwork, I use various materials
that is ussually called garbage. I force myself to use these materials
in order to break the perception of most of my people that an old
thing (ex : historical site) is just garbage. Of Course this statement
is not for all people. I'm trying to make useless materials into
useful and cool one. For me, it's proved that there is almost no
garbage in this world. Everyone must be creative in turning perception
of garbage thing including historical sites into something worthy.
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