About The Project

Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Wandering is an ongoing photographic and interdisciplinary project that explores how bodies navigate life outside the boundaries of heteronormative time. Drawing on the queer phenomenology of Sara Ahmed and Jack Halberstam’s theories of queer temporality, this work asks: What happens when we resist the timelines of family, marriage, reproduction, and inheritance? What objects fade from view when we wander off the beaten path, and what new ones come into focus?

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Set in Indonesia, the project traces individuals and communities who live outside these conventional frameworks. Through intimate encounters in punk houses, forest gatherings, artist collectives, anarchist libraries, and the bustling streets of Indonesia, Lives that are unscripted, precarious, and deeply relational, these photographs are not just images, they are orientations. They bear witness to bodies finding their way, together, in spaces that make room for difference.

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This work is shaped by collaboration and community. The project started from my ongoing friendship and creative partnership with queer artist and writer Ranu Ritamalan, whose personal reflections on wandering, orientation, and everyday life are woven into the project’s conceptual and emotional fabric. Their voice, like the project itself, resists singularity, offering instead a layered meditation on what it means to wander off the beaten path.

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The project’s title is borrowed from a passage in Intan Paramaditha’s novel The Wandering, which reimagines The Wizard of Oz through a feminist, postcolonial lens. In Paramaditha’s telling, Dorothy’s red shoes are not a ticket home, but a curse of perpetual wandering—an inheritance from the dead, a reminder that some of us are never meant to settle. This tension between longing and displacement, between the desire for home and the freedom of the open road, pulses through every frame of this work.