Isaw some frogs at Pathuk market in Yogyakarta. Their naked shape stirred my association, memory and thought about death, birth, victims of violence, sex, the life of man under political oppression..." In an interview six years ago, Dutch artist Mella Jaarsma talked about her first acquaintance with frogs.

She fell in love with the amphibians and used them as a medium of expression for her art works. In her 1997 exhibition, titled Thi