It’s a one-way dialogue if one is looking at the barrel of a gun when talking about or negotiating something. That is the case of Prince Diponegoro, who virtually had to go on all fours with the tail between the legs some more, when talking to the supercilious Dutch plenipotentiary Gen. Herman Willem Daendels. Diponegoro, the oldest son of Hamengkubuwono III, started the Java War in 1825-1830 but was tricked and exiled to Manado and then Makassar. This episode was also taken up on canvas by Raden Saleh. The caricature style akin to wayang kulit used by Heri Dono is dubbed “language without any text.” Heri Dono, an artist-sculptor-installation artist, won the Prince Claus Award in 1998 and the Unesco Prize in the Shanghai Biennale in 2000. He also took part in the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne in 2003. He famously dropped out deliberately a few months before his final examinations when studying Painting at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, in 1980. His solos since 1988 were Unknown Dimensions (Basel, Switzerland, 1991); Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1993; Blooming in Arms (Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1996); Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities (Tokyo, 2000); Fortress of the Heart (Singapore, 2001); Interrogation (Vancouver, 2002); Upside Down Mind (Washington DC, 2003); Who’s Afraid of Donosaurus? (Galeri Nasional Indonesia, 2004); Broken Angels (Melbourne, 2006); Madman Butterfly (London, 2011); and Trump and Political Islam (Hong Kong, July 2017).