I hug trees. Some trees hug me back. Learning about the sculptures around the place I live from my elders and to work, I found that my family has been a little over trees always had. Let me tell you about a sentimental sculpture in particular who always do my heart, happy for a day.
When she moved to the land that would be at home, our family, my great-grandmother built her bamboo and straw next to a Jack tree house, which gave much pleasure to her seven children. Today there is still a sense of wonder to many to give in his incarnation as sculpture, which is the heart of the hotel lobby.
Family lore has it that it was once my grandfather, eager to show more of the, magnificent view of the guests, she hit lower. "Do it, after I die," was their agreement, which is the polite Balinese way of saying: "Over my dead body." was
Great-Granny passed and one with Mother Earth as a deity in our ancestral temple. My grandfather cut the tree. He used to build the wood. He dug out the roots and commissioned to transform a sculptor the stump.
The name carved on one of the legs of the sculpture, unearthed one of the five roots, Gde Amerjaya Tjokot is. From the ingenious way figures were brought out of the singular timber, its inherent properties expresses, I would assume a risk that the sculptor a descendant or student is the modernist Schnitzer Tjokot (1886-1971). Where Tjokot work roughly hewn and to be abstract maintained, however, this work is much more polished, what on Bali after the 1965 communist purge desire for order and the pursuit of beauty.
There are so many figures carved in the tree I can many minutes, spend hours trying to study it. It contains some scenes from the Mahabharata, an epic story full of allegories for life with its many shades of gray between the purity of the white and the dark black. And black, in our book, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Black is the color of life, of Vishnu. seeds germinate and sprout best in the black darkness. On the ninth full moon of the lunar calendar Bali, fluttering black to see the wind on the banners, Barongs from all over the island adrift coming homage to the spiritual source of Bali payable waters. The water that the rice fields, the domain of Dewi Sri, a Shakti of Vishnu.
holds in the cosmology of Bali, Mount Batur spatially irrigates the "up" position north, where Vishnu resides. Vishnu element is water, plenty of a 12 km long stretch of the Caldera filling, forming Lake Batur. In local mythology adopted and adapted from India, Vishnu the sustainer of life incarnate on Earth many times to instructions for a man. He came like a fish Manu to warn of the coming of the great flood. He came as the gods turtle reach the elixir of life help to become immortal. In some stories he is active to defeat as pygmy or lion-headed man an evil king, or as Rama lovers of Sita, the Alengka delivered from the clutches of Rahvana. Later identified stories the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu, but in the Mahabharata, he plays but a cameo role. Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, is a consultant in the Mahabharata and takes center stage but briefly in the part known as the "Bhagavad Gita", when Arjuna unit faith shaken, and he is not sure to enter the fight.
The sculpture depicts Krishna holding the reins of a carriage with Arjuna as a passenger, riding through forests and battlefields. Life goes on in the forest, even if the men are preparing to slaughter each other. In the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, there is a discussion about Karma Yoga, the path to perfection by action. Krishna says: "You are fighting for justice, and that is your goal ... Do not be charged, whether you win or lose ..."
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