Jawa and Nanyang, archival prints on paper, present Boedi Widjaja’s visual writing system that translates cultural memory into genetic language. Drawing on structural affinities between cosmological scripts and molecular code, these works align the twenty-letter Javanese Hanacaraka alphabet and the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching with the genetic system of twenty amino acids and sixty-four DNA triplets.

In this system, DNA becomes both medium and syntax: a code through which fractured histories are recombined within a biomolecular framework. Through these works, Boedi binds memory and genetic code into a single visual script.

Jawa (2019) encodes passages from the fifteenth–sixteenth century Sundanese poem The Story of Bujangga Manik: A Pilgrim’s Progress, a travel narrative mapping its author’s journey across Java.