Rozana's Batik Corner.

I have come to know her ever since i met her husband Hasnul  Saidon, my good friend and often mento at USM. Anyone who can stand as tall as Hasnul deserves my respect. Not the "Iron Lady, but the Batik Sensei. She uses the batik technique as the instrument of her teaching and sharing while at the same time growing  herself to become another Georgetown Center piece fot the Creative.  

Rozana's Corner has taken its root in the Armenian Street Area and I hope in all its wisdom that the MPPP would look into affording her with all the help she needs rather than bury her along what the rest of them. This Street should be declared 'Batik Walk' and more such activities be set up along the street anything and everything that has to do with Batik , onece a week!  This will be where Batik Masters can be invited to share themselves with locals and tourists alike. It will not only bring the street to life but will also give a good reason for tourists to stroll down that area.

If she can come this far in her pursuit, She deserves to recognition and her thoughts and ideas about how the area can grow should be taken with more seriousness. The Penang State Government has an asset to work with in the Arts and Cultural projects in developing the Armenian street area into an 'Zone of The Arts and Cultural Heritage Area". But then again as it is it is not too bad actually, more quaint. This little place is more like a little pearl in the corner of the universe with everything else around her closed most of the time. 

Batik making is as Universal a technique as it can get that allows for creative expression freely regardless if one is an artist, or artistically inclined or not. When introduced tot eh technique remember to not ask what you intend to paint but How! How do you use colored dye and water onto a pure silk cloth. How to get to know colors and what they do when they mix one  with another and how the flow with water to add to depths and dimensions. You can create a rainbow or your own imagination.  

The watercolor quality of the Batik Dye makes it more feminine in nature and mostly soothing  to the eyes if not the Spirit and sensuality. The Batik technique can be found all over the world but mostly in the East as Oil based Art techniques are mostly found in the West. Oil and Water, Iron and Bamboo. the Cosmic Circle of Yin and Yang in the scheme of the Universe.

To be Present even for a second in space and time, totally absorbed in what you do, is worth a thousand years of hard labor and incessant thinking. Like most free style art, Batik can be done spontaneously allowing one's inner nature to come out and express itself without inhibitions or conditioning..Meditation in action, The Power of Now", batik  has the the quality of fluidity. unlike Sumiye, The Japanese Art of Block Printing, Batik is less contrived.

 Size has allot to do with having a great time while painting 

Materials are safe and not too expensive.

Allmost every one loves it