It’s one thing to be spending your time relaxing on the beach all day, with no plans except a lovely meal, and more beach. It’s a whole other thing to stay in glorious accommodations, where great thought and care has been taken to make a lovely experience even more lovely. One of the nicest places in the world to find this magnificent combination is Bali. Boutique hotels here offer that amazing sense of being away from it all, with more privacy than the public beaches can offer, and an endless array of amenities that speak to your sense of perfect bliss. They are also more personal than chain hotels, smaller in size and offering particular splendid touches that make the world simply elegant.
Bali is already a fantastic place, with its rich and diverse culture, and amazing natural vistas everywhere you turn. There is plenty to do on the town, and many excellent attractions for visitors of all ages and tastes. If you can find the strength to pull yourself away from the excellent offerings at the hotel, and there may be no good reason to, there are some fantastic things to see in Bali. If you start to make your way into the art scene, you’ll find a number of interconnected networks that operate interdependently in the region, revealing some sensational work in isolated areas but simultaneously completely connected to a global community. While you’re in Bali, keep an eye out for HONF, a new media collective based in Yogyakarta.
Here, multiple ways of conceiving and making art come together in a spectacularly interesting way. The collective is based on critique and innovation, which means that they are always new things coming, and the spirit of experimentation here is extremely high. HONF is an acronym for House of Natural Fiber, which hints at their aesthetic in many significant ways, and also highlights their sense of irony. They don’t really work with natural fibers, not on a level beyond metaphor, but anyone certainly could work with natural fibers if they wanted to. They’re open. An open space in a field of open networks, looking into the future with a spectral image of the past walking with us as if we were always accompanied by ghosts.