Imes Paskalia (b.1996) is a visual artist based in Jakarta. Her art practice are portraying about mental issues, coping mechanism, depicting on emotional within human being."Art is the most closest self-approach for me as a human-being, on having an honesty hour with myself and the world. The honesty between the dark side of mine and wishes. Hope." For having an intimate and personal self-reflection on exploring ways to embrace the vulnerability that oneself have and learning to seek meaning behind every unexpected series of events where eventually, be able to genuinely accept, that it is the on-going maturity process in life, yet also be able to turn this bitter past and insaneness mental conditions into something remarkable.Reconcile from the scars and wounds that marked on human’s body, soul and life.Help to sharpen the sense of awareness and sensitivity towards my surrounding. It could be small matter or the obvious one.Being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Post-Traumatic Syndrome Disorder (PTSD) has inspired her art and it has been her survival strategy to go through her darkest hour or even her lowest point of life.​Considered this method as one of her coping mechanism, she believes that all of her works as a visible visual memories, whether it's good or bad, form her psychosis and thoughts.​​​Not forgetting about the live subject matter and objects aspects in life, she loves to do the act of an observer in her daily life. The act of observation in her daily life are including: using five human senses to observe and feel connected with the world; being empathetic and find a meaning behind people's stories and worthiness; and also to find beauty on daily objects.​This leads to her form of spiritual mediation to achieve some sort of no-mindedness, to stop the moment for a while and be grateful, to look and feel the moments, in which, she also believes that everyone have their own spiritual terms to calm their own mind.