Our Mothership Earth

If there’s any local ethical brand that always goes big or goes home, it’s Sejauh Mata Memandang. Since 2018, they have held exhibition after exhibition and they’ve always been amazing—I visited one in 2018 and one in 2019. This year they kick it up a notch and come up with two exhibitions—Sayang Sandang, Sayang Alam and Bumi Rumah Kita. A couple weeks ago, I had the chance of dropping by the latter with Agung. In this exhibition, they are focused on inorganic waste and circular economy.

Opening big with a donation station out front, anyone can donate their used clothes, whether still wearable or not—which is something I did straight away. If your clothes are in good condition, they will be donated or get resold to those in need. If your clothes are already in tatters, they will be recycled into new products. Not only that, you can also donate your plastic, paper and other waste in each respective bin. This very room is also adorned with numerous infographics regarding plastic waste and the cycle of consumption.

Walk a little further in, you will find more shocking information about waste in Indonesia and curtains made out of donated clothing—leading you to an area of local products made out of recycled materials.

Old top + socks // hand-me-down jacket + pants // Nappa Milano shoes // Roti Eneng tote bag // photos by Agung

My favourite part of this exhibition is learning about the local brands that create products using recycled materials—home decor made out of bottle caps by Mortier, cinder blocks containing sachet packagings by Rebricks and a comfortable chair using wood scraps and upcycled textile waste by Alvin T. Through this exhibition, I just found out that we can also send our plastic waste to one of Rebricks’s three drop off points—which is something I’ll definitely do once they reopen on the 24th.

The exhibition itself is still around until 1 August, so be sure to drop by and drop off some of your used clothing or domestic waste into the designated bins and save them from being sent to landfills—which, by the way, we’re running out of space for in 2021.

But, more than that, be more conscious about the decisions that you make in regards of your consumption. Consume and use wisely. Choose to repair than to replace. Be more aware of what the items in your hands will end up being. We only have one home, this earth of ours, so let’s choose to protect it and ourselves.

If there’s any local ethical brand that always goes big or goes home, it’s Sejauh Mata Memandang. Since 2018, they have held exhibition after exhibition and they’ve always been amazing—I visited one in 2018 and one in 2019. This year they kick it up a notch and come up with two exhibitions—Sayang Sandang, Sayang Alam and Bumi Rumah Kita. A couple weeks ago, I had the chance of dropping by the latter with Agung. In this exhibition, they are focused on inorganic waste and circular economy.

Opening big with a donation station out front, anyone can donate their used clothes, whether still wearable or not—which is something I did straight away. If your clothes are in good condition, they will be donated or get resold to those in need. If your clothes are already in tatters, they will be recycled into new products. Not only that, you can also donate your plastic, paper and other waste in each respective bin. This very room is also adorned with numerous infographics regarding plastic waste and the cycle of consumption.

Walk a little further in, you will find more shocking information about waste in Indonesia and curtains made out of donated clothing—leading you to an area of local products made out of recycled materials.

Old top + socks // hand-me-down jacket + pants // Nappa Milano shoes // Roti Eneng tote bag // photos by Agung

My favourite part of this exhibition is learning about the local brands that create products using recycled materials—home decor made out of bottle caps by Mortier, cinder blocks containing sachet packagings by Rebricks and a comfortable chair using wood scraps and upcycled textile waste by Alvin T. Through this exhibition, I just found out that we can also send our plastic waste to one of Rebricks’s three drop off points—which is something I’ll definitely do once they reopen on the 24th.

The exhibition itself is still around until 1 August, so be sure to drop by and drop off some of your used clothing or domestic waste into the designated bins and save them from being sent to landfills—which, by the way, we’re running out of space for in 2021.

But, more than that, be more conscious about the decisions that you make in regards of your consumption. Consume and use wisely. Choose to repair than to replace. Be more aware of what the items in your hands will end up being. We only have one home, this earth of ours, so let’s choose to protect it and ourselves.