Inspiration for artwork comes in dreams. There I saw
Mahapajapati, the first Buddhist nun, teaching the Eight Noble Truths, her face animated with the light of wisdom.
This sculpture was commissioned for the
Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. Finding no example of
Mahapajapati in Buddhist sculpture, I used my dream to inspire me. A Burmese nun modeled the traditional meditation pose of women for me. From another model, I caught the face and the hands in the gesture of active engagement in teaching. The Dharmachakra "Turning the Wheel" is a mudra or gesture of the hands that means teaching the Wheel of the Dharma, the union of method and wisdom.
>> Try Abhaya, a fiber glass commissioned sculpture of a Buddhist nature.
