Balinese villages appear made up largely of walled compounds abutting one another cheek by jowl. Each community centers on a Hindu temple, also walled off from the outside world. Today most are threaded by narrow roads lined with tiny shops. Widespread use of gray concrete and the general absence of painted surfaces lends a colorless atmosphere to much of the urban landscape.
The exception - and it's a wild one - are the entrance gateways to both homes and temples. The towering "split gateway" is meant to suggest the need to constantly seek to reconcile the myriad opposites that needlessly complicate life as we experience it. These side towers are also often elaborately decorated with stone statuary and deeply-carved decorative stone panels.
The wooden split door panels between the two supporting pillars are equally eye catching, their carved wooden figures often brightly painted and depicting well-known scenes from the Ramayana or Mahabharata.
As the following collages illustrate, each and everyone readily captures the photographer's eye....
The exception - and it's a wild one - are the entrance gateways to both homes and temples. The towering "split gateway" is meant to suggest the need to constantly seek to reconcile the myriad opposites that needlessly complicate life as we experience it. These side towers are also often elaborately decorated with stone statuary and deeply-carved decorative stone panels.
The wooden split door panels between the two supporting pillars are equally eye catching, their carved wooden figures often brightly painted and depicting well-known scenes from the Ramayana or Mahabharata.
As the following collages illustrate, each and everyone readily captures the photographer's eye....
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