Layout Sapardi Djoko Damono

Layout Sapardi Djoko Damono

If the door has been there is since the beginning, there would not have been a previous door. The previous door was made from ply- wood. It is eighty centimeters by 180 centimeters. It is painted white like all of the walls in the guest room so that the room feels spacious.

A sofa that can seat three people faces a table that is covered with a plate of glass that is ten millimeters thick. There are also two chairs that match the sofa; the seat of one of them is rather flat. At the le ft hand corner of the sofa there is a small table, about seventy centi- meters high; on the table there is an arrangement of small wooden dolls—one of them was made in Bali. There is also one that was made in Japan; it is tiny. There are a pair of dolls, male and female, made in Yogya, carved from some kind of light wood. The dolls fall over sometimes—victims of cats’ play or knocked over by the double window curtains as they are opened or closed. The curtain color is not a primary color. Approximately one and a half meters from the sofa there is a fan, which of course is used on hot days. In the back, about two meters from the sofa, there is a rattan chair that is dragged from here to there if there are not enough chairs. Between the two chairs there is a table, also made from rattan, upon which is placed a pot with a golden pothos vine. On the wall behind the sofa hangs a reproduction of a sketch of a face of a woman, the work of Picasso, that measures twenty by fi fteen centimeters. There is also a shadow puppet of Arjuna as tall as approximately two hand spans,

a pair of wildly colorful wooden puppets about the same size, and a locally-made ceramic tile measuring twenty centimeters by twenty centimeters that is carved with a slogan of a weekly newsmagazine. The electric switches are located above, near the window. On the opposite wall hangs a bamboo weaving from Thailand illustrated with a rabbit; it is about one meter tall and forty centimeters wide. Directly over the guest table hangs a circular woven rattan lamp- shade. The guest room, which is five meters long and four meters wide, is connected to the dining area forming an “L” shape. The dining area is approximately the same size as the guest room, so that a pair of wildly colorful wooden puppets about the same size, and a locally-made ceramic tile measuring twenty centimeters by twenty centimeters that is carved with a slogan of a weekly newsmagazine. The electric switches are located above, near the window. On the opposite wall hangs a bamboo weaving from Thailand illustrated with a rabbit; it is about one meter tall and forty centimeters wide. Directly over the guest table hangs a circular woven rattan lamp- shade. The guest room, which is five meters long and four meters wide, is connected to the dining area forming an “L” shape. The dining area is approximately the same size as the guest room, so that

a calendar for last year that was never changed, ever since the only inhabitant of the house was taken away by four or five men dressed in plain clothes.