His practice much inspired by nature, either in physical form or the idea of nature itself. Marten often use variety media in his work, responds to a natural landscape or a specific spatial framing. His outdoor works are ephemeral in nature, a condition in which Marten is questioning about ‘how humans position their natural environment, whether good or bad’. Marten is interested in studying nature in anthropocentrism. According to him, looking back to the most basic things about how we humans perceive nature is very important. He studied in Indonesia Art Institute (ISI) Yogyakarta and Bandung Institute of Technology.