I Hug Trees. Some trees hug me. Learn the sculptures around where I live and work from my elders, I discovered that my family has always had a thing about trees. Let me tell you about a sentimental sculpture in particular, which always gladdens my heart for a day's work.
When she moved to the land that was to become our family house, my grandmother built a bamboo and thatch hut next to a jackfruit tree that gave much joy to his seven children. Today, it continues to give a sense of wonder for many in his incarnation as a sculpture that is the centerpiece of our hotel lobby.
Family lore has it that once was my grandfather, eager to show more beautiful sight for customers, suggested cutting. "Do it after my death," was his acquiescence, which is the polite Balinese way of saying, "Over my dead body."
Great-grandma passed on and became one with the earth mother as a deity in our ancestral temple. My grandfather cut the tree down. He used the wood to build. He dug roots, and commissioned a sculptor to transform the strain.
The name engraved on one of the legs of the sculpture, one of the five roots dug, is Gde Amerjaya Tjokot. According to the figures so ingenious were highlighted from the singular wood, expressing its intrinsic qualities, I would venture to assume that the sculptor is a descendant or student Modernist woodcarver Tjokot (1886-1971). When the working Tjokot tended to be roughly cut and abstract, however, this work is much more polished, reflecting post-1965 communist purge the desire to Bali for the order and the search for beauty.
There are so many figures carved into the tree, I can spend several minutes or even hours, study. It contains several scenes from the Mahabharata, an epic full of allegories for life with its many shades of gray between pure white and dark black. And black, in our book, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Black is the color of life, of Vishnu. The seeds germinate and grow best in dark black. The ninth full moon of the lunar calendar Bali, black is seen on the banners fluttering in the wind, inaugurating Barongs all around the island who come to pay homage to the spiritual source of the waters of Bali. The water that irrigates the rice fields, the field of Dewi Sri, a shakti of Vishnu.
In the cosmology of Bali, Mount Batur spatially holds the "up" position of the North, where Vishnu resides. The element of Vishnu is water, plenty filling 12 km stretch of the caldera forming the Batur lake. In local mythology, adopted and adapted from India, Vishnu the preserver of life incarnates on earth often give advice to man. He came like a fish to warn Manu of the coming of the great flood. It came as a turtle to help the gods reach the elixir of life to become immortal. In some stories, it is more active as a pygmy or man-lion head to defeat an evil king, or as the lover Rama Sita who delivered Alengka claws Rahvana. stories later identified the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu, but in the Mahabharata epic, plays but a cameo role. Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, acts as advisor in the Mahabharata, and is central, but briefly in the part known as the "Bhagavad Gita" where Arjuna's faith falters and it is uncertain to enter the battle.
Krishna sculpture Performances holding the reins of a chariot with Arjuna as a passenger, riding through forests and battlefields. Life goes on in the forest, even though men are preparing to massacre each other. In the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, there is a discussion of Karma Yoga, the path to perfection by action. Krishna said, "You fight for justice, and that is your goal ... Do not be overwhelmed by the fact that you will win or lose ..."
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