‘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
Inspired by Spell of the Sensuous
Our bodies as landscapes. Maybe, even though we have also shifted our attention away from them and try to domesticate them they are the only landscape we cannot escape from, cannot isolate ourselves from and so they are our constant reminder, even if as a backdrop, but with a voice that can assert itself, that we
... See moreshaping. She had burst solid form open to make a pierced form, a hole, after the birth of her first child in 1931. Hepworth described sculpture as ‘the three-dimensional realization of an idea’.
Deborah Levy • The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body. Having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence, I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (Nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the Universe. It is a return to the maternal source
Ana Mendieta
... See moreWhen I left Lewis, I wondered whether I’d ever again fall so deeply into the dreaming of any other land. Whether I’d ever feel myself so keenly to be a part of its stories, a member of its dreaming community. Though there has never been for me another relationship as profound as my relationship with the land on Lewis, moving to Donegal showed me
... See moreExiled from Cuba at a young age, Mendieta said that she was “overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature).” Seeking a way to, in her words, “return to the maternal source,” she used her body to commune with sand, ice, and mud, among other natural media, as a way to “become one with the earth.”