We went to a market north of the city on Saturday with our friends, the Willis family. This market has a bunch of small shops for people to sell all sorts of art - paintings, carvings, statues, and other handmade items. The kids had fun looking at all sorts of interesting things -- some of which I would definitely not classify as art. We did end up finding a Batik painting that we liked, though. We'll get it framed and put it on one of the empty walls in our house.
Luke liked the monitor lizard statues.
One of the last shops we saw was a man selling strange-looking figures made out of some type of rope. Personally, I thought they looked ridiculous, but in the background of this photo you can see our friends Dave & Jenny Willis speaking with the "artist" about selling his creations at art shows in the US and Asia for hundreds of dollars. We decided not to buy one. What on earth would you do with a giant black rope mermaid?
