01Color is grown, not painted
A felled jati log starts honeyed amber; thirty years of hand-rubbed wax deepen it to oiled brown the dye pot can never copy.
02Depth lives in the recess
The carver leaves the foliate ground untouched near-black, so every raised tendril above it reads as lit relief, not surface.
03Amber is grain catching light
The brightest highlight on a scroll is sanded jati end-grain under oil — warm wood reflecting, never a leaf of applied gold.
04A panel outlasts its house
When the joglo is dismantled, the relief screens are kept — one beam can pass through four generations and still hold its cut.