A carver whose work is often exhibited at Dell’Arte is Nyoman Setiawan, who not only carves traditional masks but loves to take on creative projects from photos brought to him. Here with his wife, Suri, and daughter Arianti, who goes to a special school for kids with vision problems. She’s an A student.
Each day we travel to the home of a Balinese teacher—some to carve, some to work on shadow puppets, some to dance lessons.
Our shadow master is Wayan Mardika, here with one of his sons, next to one of his gender (pronounced like gander) instruments, which the shadow puppet class is also learning. The gender accompanies the wayang kulit, or shadow plays. His daughter, Ayu, just won a singing competition.
Our carving teacher is Ketut Molog, here with a 2005 student, Amanda Haney. Molog’s son and nephews are also carvers….
The homes of our Balinese teachers are always lively--extended families live in compounds and there are always children, cousins, grandparents, uncles and aunts around, not to mention chickens, ducks, dogs and cats....
1 comment:
Joan - So great to see the images and read about the program so far. Wish I were there! Maybe next session. Love to you all from the home base.
-Steph
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