World paradise offers a variety of happiness and joy of life, appear in the wide range formation depending on the individual desires from each creature. Nature as the emerge of all these pleasures reasons has been so loyal in serving their beauty strategy, so that the human conscience will be given joy for setting it up or even trying to find a ways to create a form of beauty with nature assistance.

The beauty is one of femininity character and usually associated with women, one that has managed to tie the wonderful world of women is an object that has unique reflections. The item called a pearl, the pearl is generally known as a hard object has round shape with unique characteristic of light reflections.

Pearls are formed from the accumulation layer of calcium carbonate, mineral aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite, making compound with organic shell for making Conchiolin. The combination of aragonite with conchiolin called nacre which then will give a touch of beauty to the pearls. When an object interrupted into the oyster shell, the oyster coats will be issuing nacre to minimize irritation of the shell body from a foreign object, accumulation layers of nacre over a period of time can produce a pearl.
Pearls can be divided by way of its formation, the formation of environment media, or the shape of the pearl itself. Based on how the formation, divided into natural pearls are formed naturally and synthetic pearls are formed from the captivity. Based on the media environment, pearl can be divided into sea water pearls that are formed by sea shells and freshwater pearls that are formed by mollusk creature living in freshwater, such as rivers or lakes. Based on the natural shape, pearls can be divided into perfectly round pearl, semi round pearl shaped, baroque shaped pearl. Each type of pearl above must have different beauty and different economic value. Natural pearls from the sea shells with perfectly round shape of course will have higher value than synthetic freshwater mussels with semi round shape or baroque.

Pearls frequently used by humans as jewelry of course in the context of satisfying the value of beauty. There are also utilized as raw material in cosmetics, or as beads, a complementary of ritual. Speaking about rituals and religious issues, we will about to see the contents of the Hindu scriptures of Atharvaveda, where written the Garuda Purana which is about the value of the sanctity of the so-called “Nine Pearls” in the description of the mythological and religious aspects. In Sanskrit Hindu also said that Pearl was also featured as costume jewelry or portrayed as a necklace of Lord Vishnu, believe also as a stimulant digestion and treatment for mental ailment. Based on Marco Polo notes, the King of Malabar wear pearls of 108 pcs in strand of necklace and ritually transmitted from generation to generation, in which every king must say 108 prayers every morning and evening.

Earthly beauty of a pearl could contain the heavenly beauty that comes from the excavation mythology values of ancient Sanskrit. Tears of the filled shells layered by nacre formed in the freshness of sea water or freshwater can really soothing pearl lover. Will it also be able to provide freshness in your heart?

A process of drawing something in a flat form using paint or ink is called a painting. Have a closer meaning with aesthetic and art makes a painting as an object fully contain with creativity implementation. A painting can represent someone imaginer feeling to amused art curator or a person who loves painting or just to eyes sight seeing. Naturalism and representative is a way of painting creativity, these two themes can be a painter narrative act to pour a story of everything at their painting.

Firstly, a history of painting is detected through cave paintings which were found in several countries such as in French, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia, India etc. Cave painting is a reflection of life in prehistoric era and will be a record for modern era. When a man start to recognizing a cultures, then painting development is not just using cave wall as media to paint but its already use other media; canvas, fabric, board etc. Natural color from a charcoal and limestone are also turning to a modern media use such as paint or ink which is vary in type. Spiritual motif giving a big influences for all development history of a painting in both Western and Eastern country, other motifs also derive from painter creativity.

When culture began to touch Bali, especially in ancient of Hinduism era, painting is being introduced as an art. Proved that in Bali’s Sanskrit is a form of hand painting brushed at a stone, most of these painting are depiction of Kingdom or spiritual leader on that year, so their movement and their history could be detected on Bali’s heritage. First Bali’s painting was found at Kemasan (Klungkung regency) as form of a puppet painting, this painting was purposes as a gift to procession of proposing King’s Banyuwangi (a region in Eastern Java) daughter. First puppet painting is being inspired by stories of Ramayana epic. Simple character of painting combined with natural media giving a new era in Balinese painting. Then painting was developed and began spreading to other places until founded some painting style in accordance of a place where it began to make. Kemasan, Batuan, Ubud are native region in painting style and be direction style to Bali’s painter on their painting. Uniformity style of two dimension painting is also affected by traditional Bali’s culture of ancient Hinduism.

Since inclusion of Western culture in Bali’s life in year 1926 and 1928, Bali began to introduce with painting in three dimension look. This style had been brought by Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet. Lighting, coloring, and arrangement of space in Bali’s painting are begun to modernize. Painting object orientation is lead to become freedom choice in a painting. Effort in earning standard and quality of Bali’s paintings is about to find its way.

How far does standard and quality being developed? We could find the answer by exhibited on Bali’s paintings.

Connection between inside and outside world is very common known as “door”. Has a meaning as a flat movable barrier that is fitted into and closes the entrance to a building, room, cupboard, car, etc., door is a primary function in all building interior. Besides protecting a privacy of other inside interior, generally door is the first building interior that touched by a human to enter the advance world.

Design and use of the door was first discovered at the ancient Egypt tomb. In general, door has many variety of types depends on its shape, mechanism, function, and even on a culture of what region where it’s founded. Because door became a part of a building then it has a component that has to proper with design interior of the house. Attached at the doorway, a door must have a hinges to connect a doorway with the door, so the door can move freely when opened and closed. The door has several components such as light and air ventilation (top rail), door handle and key as middle rail, and supported bottom panel as a bottom rail. Along with development era and modernization, technology of door’s design already modified to meet a demand of human who want simple design for an easier life. But infrequently, still there is ancient design hunted to meet with the esthetic of home beauty and interior building.

Bali a place where always keep the harmonization between culture and modernization also has a concept in building architecture and interior design. Mentioned on several Hindu Sanskrit that universally conceptual of “Tri Hita Karana” and “Tri Mandala” always apply in developing a building as well as in the interior design, these universal concept can’t separated with Balinese community and still applied until now. Tri Mandala is a concept of a house geographical landscape divides into Main Mandala (a sacred landscape), Madya Mandala (a residential landscape), and Nista Mandala (a landscape of disposal area; e.g. toilet). The door is an equipment to separated these three area and be a bridge to harmonized them. Tri Hita Karana is a concept to emphasize a relationship between a human with God, with a Man, and with the Environment. Door which attached and be a part of “Penyengker” is also an application of Tri Hita Karana concept, shows a relationship between a human and the non biotic Environment. Wood material and its natural color is a form of relationship between human and biotic Environment. The door carving and decoration is the form of spiritual dealing between human and God as a creator of Universe.

Everything which is explained Balinese decorative door could providing the answer to a question; why Bali always contain of cultural and Mystical touch on every details? A comprehension of Bali’s decorative door will turn to be useless if you never touch the carved panel as a sensation taste of Balinese culture, and be prepared to the unique greatness of Bali interior inside.