We Who Imagine

2014 granite, trees, other vegetation

Commissioned by Tualatin HIlls Parks & Recreation, Beaverton, OR

 An original poem by Bonnie Minden Ward is engraved onto a 100' line of granite. Native trees and vegetation are planted on either side of the line will shift and heave the granite as they grow. The commissioned poem reads:

We who imagine ourselves invincible, we sleep and plan
all the while branches grow, reaching into our windows
and all of us now under the ground
while even yet a tendril of green
rests waiting in soil soft as water