"The ideas for my masks come from traditional temple ceremonies and sometimes from personal creation as well. I am most zealous at making masks for use in sacred Balinese dances."

"My name is I Ketut Sarwa. I was born in the village of Singapadu in the Sukawati Regency in 1946, just after World War II and at the beginning of Indonesia's struggle for independence from Dutch colonial rule. I have three children and my wife, whose name is Ni Nyoman Rempeg. I have been making traditional Balinese masks for almost forty years now.

"In 1957, at the age of eleven, I started to learn how to make masks from my older brother, who himself learned ...

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