Ari Bayuaji presents new sculptures for BAB2024. Rangda sculptures and masks are still used by Balinese at temples and shrines and the figures remind them of tragedy and natural disasters, so the Balinese are aware of the need to keep doing good things by nurturing nature and culture for a peaceful and prosperous life. Barong is a creature with a lion or tiger head that symbolizes the good spirit that protects the land from the bad spirits in Hindu Balinese mythology.Almost 70% of the materials are up-cycled plastic ropes found from the mangrove forests and beaches. Bayuaji started to collect the plastic ropes from the mangrove forest near where he lived in Bali during the pandemic lock down and started the Weaving the Ocean project. He witnessed many Balinese people were suffering as there were no tourists visiting the island and came up with the idea to employ many people in Sanur, Bali, to clean up the found plastic ropes and unravel it to help the people around him to survive during that difficult time.

Bayuaji studied Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada and his works are presented in world-wide in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Taiwan, Germany and Singapore.