A koan is a Buddhist meditation practice in which a puzzling image, one not in the east available to logical thinking, is presented to the student by a master.
When I cam across this passage while reading Zen poet Norman Fisher's essay, "Wash Your Bowl," I new immediately I wanted to make a broadside of it. I invited my sister, Gloria,k with whom I often collaborate, to make a rhinoceros drawing. We then set the type and printed the broadside edition together.