Rooted in the mist-laden highlands of West Java, the mythology of Telaga Warna recounts the shattering of a royal diamond necklace—an emblem of expectation whose fracture gave rise to a lake of shifting hues. While commonly told as a moral parable, the legend endures as a more nuanced meditation on refraction: the moment when singular brilliance disperses into atmosphere, water, and geological time. Here, color is not ornament but consequence—an interplay of mineral depth and light—transforming a gesture of rupture into a landscape of enduring luminosity.

The scarf is conceived as a portable field of refraction—where mythology, geology, and feminine interiority intersect through the discipline of contemporary textile design.

Silk Scarf, 70 x 70 cm

Executed in an original palette of Emerald, Sapphire Blue, Soft Lilac, and Iridescent Gold—each hue carrying symbolic resonance within the Telaga Warna cosmology.

Emerald evokes mineral depth and the living pulse of the earth beneath the water’s surface.
Sapphire Blue reflects introspection, distance, and the quiet gravity of unspoken emotion.
Soft Lilac suggests transition—the threshold between dissolution and becoming.
Iridescent Gold embodies refracted light: not opulence, but illumination released through fracture.