I heard two people talking in Inverness Park about a giant Balinese head representing the Buddha that was being transported to West Marin. I thought, it is not enough to ruthlessly appropriate that people’s religion—you literally have to take the objects that symbolize their culture and move them to some zillionaire’s backyard. We are beyond shame, without capacity for respect or even circumspection. Send the sculpture back!
They who feign veneration of a Buddha head…