Made to order
It's very much a Balinese habit to provide what the people want, at a sensible mark-up. :-)
As the years go by, and more of the genuine antiques from this part of the world have been exported... there's always a good market for imitation.
The day I took this photo I saw some women on the side of the road hosing down new statues and 'distressing' them with hard brushes, but also stacks of statues and carvings of different types that had fallen out of fashion and were just left to rot outside.
It's that mismatch again, where local labour is very cheap, especially compared to the availability of time and focus from tourists.
That's not to say there aren't genuine items to be found, but it takes some digging.
Made to order
It's very much a Balinese habit to provide what the people want, at a sensible mark-up. :-)
As the years go by, and more of the genuine antiques from this part of the world have been exported... there's always a good market for imitation.
The day I took this photo I saw some women on the side of the road hosing down new statues and 'distressing' them with hard brushes, but also stacks of statues and carvings of different types that had fallen out of fashion and were just left to rot outside.
It's that mismatch again, where local labour is very cheap, especially compared to the availability of time and focus from tourists.
That's not to say there aren't genuine items to be found, but it takes some digging.