JUMARO Joko Pratomo stood shirtless, wearing his shark’s teeth necklace, as he nimbly smeared a bamboo knot the size of his hand with yellow paint. Last Tuesday at his gallery, Galeri 76 in Malang, he was busy preparing a number of his products which are all made of bamboo burrs and knots.

In Joko’s hands the knot of bamboo roots seemed to almost magically be transformed into various attractive objects, like a little duck, a fish, a vase, a