Bali Workshop Introduction
This studio situated in the misty mountains has a beautiful name, "Bayi". "Bayi" is the intimate term for "women" in the Paiwan language, embodying the meaning of "beloved". It is a women's workshop established after the Typhoon Morakot disaster for producing traditional Paiwan clay beads. The disaster not only severely impacted the lives of the people in Jialan but also devastated their culture. Feeling the loss of tribal culture due to the disaster, the women aimed to revive the local industry and established the "Jialan Bayi Workshop" in the Jialan community. Thus, a group of mothers living in the tribe began creating handmade clay beads. They established a creative platform similar to a workstation and, under the mentorship of Wu Shulun, who has long researched Paiwan culture, started to explore the cultural creativity of the clay bead workshop and initiated research related to product design, gradually developing exquisite clay bead crafts infused with Indigenous cultural spirit.
