Mas – Wood Carving Village

Mas Village is one of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village is located in Ubud sub district. It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village’s popularity as a wood carving art village is famous in the national and world level which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which has borne and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. The famous wood carvers here are the late Ida Bagus Nyana and son Ida Bagus Tilem. Along the road you can find a lot of art shops that sell many kind of wood carvings. On the left or on the right of the road you can also see rice fields, so you can make conclusion that the live of Mas people not only as wood carvers but also as farmers. A lot of visitors come to this village every day, they want to see or to buy wood carvings and to see the people there, how to make wood carvings.

Mas Village is an interesting place to visit in Bali

This Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc.), the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy.