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Reimagination

Using one’s imagination is one way to visually re-present a historical character. There is no photo documentation of Si Singamangaraja XII. Rather, the archives and the documentation of historical heroes in Indonesia tend to be formed and stored through oral historicisation. Lifepatch met a number of artists in the Batak lands of Sumatra, asking them to make a portrait of Si Singamangaraja XII.