Tuesday 23 February 2016

Sequential images: Religious Relief

Sequential images are used to tell stories even before comic books. Back in the 9th centuries, in Indonesia, temples were built during the reign Buddhist kingdom called Majapahit to establish the marvel of Buddha. The biggest one is Candi Borobudur where a lot of religious reliefs can be found. Now reliefs serves as valuable artefacts which contains information of the culture and tradition of Indonesian ancestors. Many of them are still being recovered and preserved by archaeologists. These  elaborately carved reliefs shows profundity of the artists who are involved because, despite being a collaborative effort, the reliefs still present consistency of flow and art style.



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