Bali 2000-2001
Bali 2000 & 2001
Bali is the island of magical massages and maddening monkey jungles. Sun, skin, and sand. Shopping, surfing and spiritual seeking. Bring along your skimpy bikini and yoga tights because you are about to join the international jet set party scene on the exotic isle of Bali. You will meet up with amazing artists, surfers, fashion designers and spiritual gurus. Bali is not just for "honeymooners" anymore.
Bidding a tearful goodbye to Hong Kong in 2000, and vowing to return soon to the city that felt like coming home, I decided to travel to Bali to check out competitive manufacturing in Indonesia. Secretly, the trip was a ruse to get closer to the man who had just broken my heart (Oliver had a factory in Jakarta) and an opportunity to see what my life might have been like had things worked out. I imagined living an exotic life in Bali with him, now I was determined to be that same person only on my own. A business associate introduced me to a Canadian ex-rocker turned furniture agent who spoke fluent Balinese, and offered me a room in his tropical compound on the edge of a rice field.
These photographs reflect my life-changing journey in Bali.
