Indonesian Stone Altar on Pedestal

The tallest thing in the garden with the smallest room, and that room is the point.

Cut from Jogja stone, this stone altar on a pedestal comes from Bali, Indonesia. Offerings of flowers, rice and incense are part of ordinary life on the island, and raised shrines lift them toward the gods and away from the ground. The photograph shows a square column in tiers, each molding stepping in and out as it rises to a small arched chamber. A stepped cap carries a leafy carved crest. Sunlight falls in patches across the creamy surface. Eighty-four inches high, and twenty on each side at the base.

Very little of it is furnished, and all of it is in use.