Egyoku Roshi, who is also an artist, embraced the idea. I brought her a pile of images and sketch books, and we walked the ZCLA property, looking to see if there was a suitable spot for an outdoor sculpture. In one corner of the garden there is a very beautiful, tall, wooden statue of Kanzeon [the Bodhisattva of Compassion] by a sculptor named Barbara Yates. The area around the sculpture was scraggly and does not get much sunlight. Roshi picked out a sketch that I had made a year earlier with no location in mind, or even any thought of what it might communicate.
And so we defined our project: with the help of the sangha, I would bring that sketch to life in the area surrounding the Kanzeon statue. The sculpture would be about 30 feet long and 20 feet high.
The material I chose for the sculpture is a plant called Giant Reed, or Arundo donax, a bamboo-like member of the grass family. I am part of a local organization that works to protect and enhance the environmental health of the mountains and creeks where we live.
Years ago, I was introduced to Arundo donax and its reputation as an invasive plant—a nonnative weed that displaces native species and disrupts healthy ecosystems. We researched the issue for years and came to the following conclusions:. My fellow and activists and I decided not to support the chemical weed wars. While acknowledging that some plants can dominate landscapes shortly after being introduced, we think it is preferable to work with the reality of accelerated plant migration than to try to stop this phenomenon with billions of tons of poison.
The history and politics connected to this plant are now imbedded and woven into the sculpture, which is called The Cradle of the Bodhisattva. By using Arundo donax we were able to make a large and durable sculpture with zero carbon or chemical footprint. Harvesting the material helped rather than hurt the local environment, and the hated plant was converted into something beautiful and useful. And while the design came into being without any specific intention, now when I look at the sculpture I see a collection of relatively delicate pieces woven into a structure of considerable strength and resilience.
I see order unraveling into chaos and chaos coalescing into order. I see a container that helps define the space before it, and at the same time draws us toward the world on the other side.
To me it feels like our collective response to a koan, though I am still not quite sure what the koan is. Thank you for subscribing to Tricycle! I am writing to tell you I love it.
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