water into water Sculpture in Honor of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Visit to Stanford University, November 4, 2005 This black and white marble sculpture depicts a gentle pool whose concentric rings emanate from the center in a wheel of soft, deep ripples. It is a metaphor for the inevitable and natural sequence and consequence of a single act – one pebble thrown in a pond; a single drop of water landing in a still stream; one thought or act, either kind or cruel – and the effect it invariably has in nature and the universe in ever widening rings of different depths and shapes – that ultimately disappear and become still water again. (click images for full view) Return to Gallery