‘Bale I’ and ‘Bale II’ is a work about measurements. A bale, or balai is a name of a particular type of architectural structure in Java and Bali. I am interested in measurements that are taken without using the metric system. I learned about the principles of Asta Kosala Kosali, a Balinese Hindu belief, which is a way of structuring land with housing and sacred buildings, based on the anatomy of the body. Body parts of the head of the family are measured and become the basic units of measurements for structural elements such as the circumference of bale pillars, door widths and distances between family shrines. These building codes are in accordance with the philosophical, ethical, and ritual foundations once recorded on lontar leaves.
I sought to translate this practice into a drawing, a drawing that was enlarged to human proportions and worn on the body.