Javanese sculptor, inventor, architect and all-round eccentric, Kamto Widjaya Lindu Prasekti, is by no means your average artist. If you ask him his opinion on the matter he jokingly suggests he was probably better prepared to become a criminal. In 1996 he was even able to travel to Osaka, Japan to work as a draughtsman. Back in Yogyakarta in 1999, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, he had saved enough capital to buy land on the outskirts of Yogyakarta and open Jagad Gallery, at a time that the business in antique furniture, buildings and Javanese folk art was booming.

As the supply of antiques thinned, his attentions turned to the large amount of leftovers – bits and pieces, odds and ends from old doors, furniture, chairs, ploughs, tools and architectural elements as well as many old forged iron tools scythes, shovels, hoes and hammers – that had accumulated in his warehouse. They provoked his very active imagination and in his odd free hours he begin making totem-like creatures and totems for his personal amusement.