Hello, nice to meet you !

I’m a mother of three boys - two young adults and a teenager. Much of what I create today is shaped by that role as much as anything else.

My path didn’t move in a straight line.

I’ve loved drawing for as long as I can remember. As a child and into my teenage years, I knew I belong in the creative world and going to art school felt like the only path I knew. So after graduating high school in the mid-90s, I enrolled in an art school to study art and graphic design. I thought I would feel at home there, but I struggled. I felt out of sync with the environment, the tools, and with the pace of how I wanted to learn. There was a sense that what I was looking for wasn’t there, and that I needed to explore beyond what was being offered. I began questioning where I was going, and whether I had made the right decision. Then the May 1998 riots in Indonesia happened. Something shifted in me, and I decided to leave art school.

I continued my studies at London School of Public Relations Jakarta while stayed connected with friends from the art school. Somehow, after a while I found my way back into creative work. Together with some friends, we built a small production house and worked on many creative projects. We did audio-visual presentations, music videos, album covers, and more. I said yes to many roles, promotion, marketing, makeup, wardrobe styling, photographer, cameraman.. basically any role that was needed. It was my first real experience working as part of a team, and a long period of learning by doing. Saying yes first, and figuring things out along the way, became my way of moving forward. I was 19 and inexperienced, but I was surrounded by friends that was very generous in sharing their skills and knowledge with me. I love them and so grateful for them. A few years later when life took us in different directions, I continued freelancing and collaborating with different production companies and contributing to more commercials, advertisements, and documentary projects.

In 2003, I married my high school sweetheart. A year later, I became a mother.

Motherhood shifted things again. After my second baby, we made the decision to leave Jakarta and move to Surabaya. We needed space, from the pace, the noise, and the weight of expectations that had built around us. It wasn't a simple decision, but an important one. A step toward a different kind of life.

In Surabaya, our third son was born. Life became fuller, and in many ways, more grounded. The city has less traffic and offered a cheaper, simpler life. There more space to breathe for us, the young parents and three little children. I had more time in between chores and parenting, and wanted to do creative work that allowed me to also be present at home.

In this city I met a mother from our son’s school who has a printing studio. We clicked right away and start designing and printing wedding invitations, something I unexpectedly really enjoyed. There was something meaningful about being part of someone’s beginning, even in a small way.

I began exploring mindfulness and intuitive practices more deeply. I started meditation, learned about crystal healing, sound healing, essential oils and worked with intuitive cards. I studied natural and self healing, I healed from anxiety and panic attacks and gastro esophagus problems. I became increasingly interested in astrology and human design, in their ways of understanding patterns, timing, and our potentials. Later I realized that these weren’t just things I learned, they became quiet support systems. Something I could return to for healing and to see myself more clearly.

During my time in Surabaya, I found myself drawn into branding work, often with women led businesses and early stage brands. I felt drawn to them. Those collaborations stayed with me. They weren’t just projects, they were conversations with women building something meaningful while navigating their ever-changing roles and responsibilities, Over time, my focus sharpened. My work became less about just visuals, and more about clarity, reflection, and helping women reconnect with their own direction, the dreams beyond expectations placed on them.

Through all these shifts, one thing remained constant:

I return to paper.

When life feels scattered, when roles overlap and thoughts get noisy, I write, or draw. Journals have been my way to untangle, question, sort and remember. They hold my reflections, my plans, my commitments, and the things I don’t want to lose sight of. They’ve been my my structure, my mirror, and record keeper.

Honest Pages grew from this very simple need : to make sense of things.

It’s a system I created for mothers and children, but really, it’s for anyone who wants to move through life with a little more clarity and self trust.

Honest Pages 2026

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