Wishing you a keris for the new year

Found not in an old notebook,  but in an old, unlabelled collection of photos downloaded from my phone, probably from an exhibition at the ACM, probably some time earlier this year. There are the obvious differences in note-taking - in the labelling and sequencing of notes, in the serendipity of ideas on the same page, in the translation of experience to the page (my photography being as unmediated by art or skill as is possible to be) - but some of these differences may just be romance.

The keris was one of five things, along with a home, a singing bird, a wife and a horse, that all Javanese men believed were needed for happiness in life.