At the time Stupa I was built, Buddha himself was not represented in human form, but symbolized by the horse on which he rode away from his palace, by the wheel of law, by his footprints, and by the pipal tree under which he found enlightenment.
When Stupa I was constructed, Buddha was represented as a horse, a wheel, his footprints, and the pipal tree where he became enlightened.
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages.