Circle of Time
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​Location: Milpitas, CA
Client: City of Milpitas
​Graphics: Thinh Nguyen
Fabricator: Mattos Monuments

The stone sculpture resembles a large granite millstone, evoking the ranching and agrarian period in early California history when this land belonged to José Loreto Higuera (1778-1845) and was known as Rancho Los Tularcitos or “place of the little tules”. Muwekma Ohlone Indians, the original inhabitants of the land, used tule reeds to make boats, baskets, and housing. Engravings of the plant can be seen on the face of the sculpture. The “window” in the middle of the sculpture invites people to look through and gaze at the historic adobe building on one side and the beautiful landscape on the other side. Metaphorically, it is a window to the past and also to the future, united in the present.