Memories of the Sacred; Photographic Essay of Balinese Ritual - Rio Helmi

Memories of the Sacred; Photographic Essay of Balinese Ritual - Rio Helmi Afterhours. New, old stock. 880rb SALE 450rb! These images are mostly from my book Memories of the Sacred (2010), which came about quite organically. One day I just decided to put together a collection of images of Bali that I had taken over a period of almost 30 years — an attempt to capture something evanescent that has been disappearing from the island. As Diana Darling put it in her essay for this book: “There is a certain something — a wild, spangled energy — that once saturated Bali as tangibly as its own tropical humidity…”. The name Bali is said by some to come from an acronym of batara linggih or seat of the gods; by others, it is said to come from the term we-wali-an, which means a ritual offering performance during temple ceremonies. Ritual here, staged with great fanfare, has as its goal to make manifest both loyalty to a tightly structured society and devotion to a myriad of gods whose relationships mirror those of the human realm.