Everywhere people are pounding, hammering, building and creating. The women scoop rocks up in a pile, then balance them in pans on their heads. They carry the rocks from the pile to the road, dump their weight, and walk back to the pile. The average age of the female rock carriers is 17. They have no education.
Trucks hurtle past, loaded with bags of cement, lumber, sand, gravel, rocks, bricks and people.
A rooster standing on an old dirt wall scratches his head. He flaps his wings and moves along the top of the wall. The women shovel stones and sift out fine soil through wire screens, developing part of Ubud, Bali. Development has taken hold like a very hungry animal and people quickly elevate diverse economic opportunities to extreme simplicity. Balinese painters create on canvas.