27 October 2015: Nothing at Mertasari this morning but extreme beauty: toddlers paDdle, sampans bob. I leave tonight for Doha, to visit i m pei's islamic art museum. I am haunted by a video i saw yesterday of a man being burned to death in the street in Aceh. He was kicked in the face as he struggled to get up. A crowd of young men watched. The video had the potency of the video of corpses being off-loaded in Auschwitz. I want to scream and do something. I will henceforth desist from painting the Sharia police presence in Aceh as light.

26 October 2015: Sometimes their r holymen on the beach at dawn but mostly its just perek on their way home from a night on the job at the cafe cewek

24 October 2015: Mertasari morning glories

23 October 2015: Bali's olympic water polo squad practicing the soak at Mertasari this morning

22 October 2015: Introducing Batak bom-sek Asia Siregar, the Ethel merman of mertasari

21 October 2015: Gloriosa superba sunrise at Mertasari this morning — further enhanced by the appearance of Kadek Yasa, Nusa Lembongan's answer to Australian surfing legend nat young.

16 October 2015: Nothing to report, just beauty, and bonhomerie

15 October 2015: Rapture, rapture messianic sunrise: two cheap arab chubs from Dubai have three fisherman bailed up in the shallows, taking syrupy photos against the choral symphonic sky. Eventually the grandad in the rented sampan and the fishermen saunter off because they haven't been paid. " Gus, gus, gus' the arab screams. "Poison their heads (cetikang nas'ne)'', I tell the fishermen, and I then take my own free pic he he

14 October 2015: Very tender scene on Mertasari Beach this morning : a son and daughter lead their ailing mom into the shallows for a healing submersion. Further down the beach a handsome father meditated in full temple dress while his son watched. What love the morning light brings