Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Balinese painter to hold expo in Tokyo

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, February 1, 2008

Balinese painter to hold expo in Tokyo

Irawaty Wardany, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar

Balinese painter I Ketut Budiana, 57, will display his works in a nine-day solo exhibition next April in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibit will showcase more than 70 of Budiana's latest works.

"It will run from April 1 to April 9, 2008," Ketut Budiana said as quoted by Antara on Thursday in his studio.

He said it would be his sixth exhibition in Japan, the last taking place at the Tokyo Station Gallery in July, 2003.

"I am really excited with this upcoming exhibition and I have worked very hard to ensure that it will reflect the best of my creativity," he said.

Born into a family of traditional artisans in Padangtegal, Ubud, Budiana studied Balinese traditional visual arts from the time he was a child.

He was fortunate to have the chance to study under Rudolf Bonnet, the Dutch painter who, along with the German painter Walter Spies, played a pivotal role in the birth of modern Balinese art. He later pursued his education at Denpasar's School of Fine Art.

The upcoming exhibit will give Japanese art lovers an opportunity to view Budiana's impressionistic and semi-naturalistic works.

Previously, Budiana conducted successful exhibitions in Australia (1977), the United States (1990, 1992 and 1995), Singapore (1994) and Spain (1998). His works have been collected by several prestigious institutions, including Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum and Japan's Fukuoka Art Museum.

Noted art-critic Jean Couteau praised Budiana as a painter whose works reflect the essence of the modern East.

"His works transcend various man-made borders, thus, they cease to be ordinary art works. His works have became a modern philosophical contemplation," he said.

Budiana, according to Jean Couteau, has managed to achieve that degree of modernity without shedding his traditional roots.

"Besides creating modern art works, Budiana continues to create traditional art pieces, particularly ones related to sacred religious rituals," he said.

In his home village, Budiana is known as a skilled temple sculptor and an accomplished undagi, a traditional architect responsible for designing and building sacred structures, such as wooden sarcophagi, or petulangan, and cremation towers, or bade.