Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung

While the invention of the camera was once feared to cause the imminent demise of realism on canvas as photography would sufficiently portray objects in precise form,today's new technology in cameras and digital equipment has turned out to offer painters even more alternatives.

Livi, 31, gazed in wonder at Dikdik Sayahdikumullah's work Red ad Hoc, depicting cars stuck at the traffic lights in the rain. The lights from the headlights refract through the water droplets on the windscreen, creating a gorgeous scene, quite different perhaps from the reality of being stuck in a traffic jam caused by torrential rain.