Gunung Agung, rice fields, pool water, and rural East Bali landscape seen from Villa Hola Agung

Living Bali

The Living Bali of Karangasem

A private traditional compound inside a living East Bali landscape

Principle

Local connections, direct benefit

Gunung Agung and rice fields seen from a wooden balcony at Villa Hola Agung

Mountain

Facing Gunung Agung

Art

Art in the House

Paintings of Gunung Agung, memory and East Bali

Framed painting by a local artist hanging on wooden walls inside Villa Hola Agung — Framed painting by a local artist inside Villa Hola Agung

Framed floral painting by a local artist displayed inside Villa Hola Agung — Floral painting by a local artist inside Villa Hola Agung

Framed I Nyoman Sukari painting in the house at Villa Hola Agung — I Nyoman Sukari painting in the house

Local gamelan musicians gathered near Villa Hola Agung during a community ceremony — Local gamelan group during a community ceremony

Gunada

Gunung Agung through the eyes of Gunada

Book cover for Jejak Erupsi Gunung Agung about Gunada paintings and the 2017-2021 unrest

Watercolour study of the Karangasem landscape beside the pool at Villa Hola Agung

Painting materials and a landscape study beside the pool at Villa Hola Agung

Rice fields and village land near Villa Hola Agung

Subak

Water, Rice and Community

Dry Season

The Dry-Season Sky

Kites over the fields

Local children standing with a large handmade kite in rural Karangasem

Young person carrying a large handmade kite through green fields in Karangasem

Long handmade kites flying high in a cloudy Karangasem sky

People sharing a Megibung-style communal meal in Karangasem

Food Culture

Megibung: Karangasem’s communal dining tradition

Visible / Invisible

From the visible to the invisible

Traditional dance and colour in the Joglo, connecting visible and invisible Bali

Purification ceremony moment near the traditional wooden buildings at Villa Hola Agung

Ritual Life

Sound, Water and the Invisible

Celestron telescope under a starry East Bali night sky near Villa Hola Agung

Night Sky

The night sky

Gunung Agung

Respecting Gunung Agung

Gunung Agung and rural Karangasem landscape at sunset

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