Giant Puppet Workshop
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 by Sidarta WijayaOn Balinese new year eve, known as pangrupukan (this year falls on 6/3/2008), thousands of ogoh ogoh (giant puppet of evil spirits, scary monsters, giants of Ramayana epic and other malevolent beings), will on the street all over the island. The ogoh ogoh is usually made by the youth organization in every hamlet in Bali. However, sometimes the members of a youth organization do not have much time to construct an ogoh-ogoh, or simply do not know how to make one so in order to be able to participate in ogoh ogoh parade they order an ogoh ogoh from ogoh ogoh workshop.
One of few ogoh ogoh workshops in Bali is located in Sesetan village, Denpasar. I Wayan Candra established this workshop, which is well known as Gases Bali, in 1990. Before establishing this ogoh ogoh workshop I Wayan Chandra have already run a workshop, which construct cremation tower, cow sarcophagi, and concrete statue. He come from undagi (traditional engineer) family, which its main duty is to construct cremation tower, cow sarcophagi, traditional house or other structures.
Loading ...