Babies, that is. Sorry if you came to this site expecting otherwise...
In Bali, trash cans are not the only works of art. The streets of the Nusa Dua district, where I stayed, are filled with numerous other stone carvings. Many of them are carvings of people, in a distinct style that I dubbed the "plump and naked" style, because all the people were very curvy, with big, round faces, no clothes, and often with plump and naked babies tumbling all over the place.
I'm sure this style of sculpture has a name -- any art history buffs out there who know what it's called? Needless to say, a Google search for "plump naked babies art" did not exactly give me the kind of information I was looking for (but will make for interesting reading, when Google, a la AOL, makes their search term database public someday...)
Other carvings, like the one at bottom right, were of elaborate mythological figures.
Wowser! I get notifications of new blog articles via an RSS feed and I could not imagine what you had written about! I thought maybe you had gone around the bend! But looks like I had nothing to fear, eh? :-)
Posted by: Clare | Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 08:22 AM
No guarantee there; I could still be going around the bend. You just wouldn't be able to tell it from this entry... ;o)
Posted by: Basia | Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 10:56 AM