Indonesian Stone Altar on Pedestal

A house for something small, set seven feet up, where the household can look it in the eye.

Bali, Indonesia, is the origin of this stone altar on a pedestal, carved in Jogja stone. Balinese devotion is a daily affair, and small raised shrines give the gods and ancestors a clean, high place to receive flowers, rice and incense. The form here is plain and architectural. Layered square moldings build up a tall shaft, with a stepped roof over a single arched opening. Dappled light falls across the pale surface in the photograph. Eighty-four inches high.

It makes no fuss, which is a kind of confidence.