‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
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‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
“I the sculptor am the landscape”
Thea Hawlin • ‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
Barbara Hepworth
Whenever I drive through the countryside and up the hills, I imagine forms placed in situations of natural beauty and I wish more could be done about the permanent siting of sculptures in strange and lonely places.
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
This intermingling of art and life was central to Hepworth. Just as she lived with nature so she lived with her sculptures: “It’s lovely to live with a sculpture, because it changes in every possible light; all through the day, moonlight, artificial light – any light – it’s always changing”
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ - Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone - The London Magazine
When we walk in the world we connect to our surroundings, on a basic level our feet tread the paths that many have taken before, looking from afar we become a moving and present part of the earth we live on, we acknowledge our place in it, even through the notionally insignificant movement of simply getting a breath of fresh air.