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Love Knot

Love Knot
The Philip Trust Collection,
(Private), England
(Height 10ins)


Love Knot


HEIGHT 10 INCHES POLISHED BRONZE 1978


"Forming Union"

Love Knot was one of the earliest of my Symbolic Sculptures. I had done a figurative sculpture of an embracing couple, entitled `Awakening', in which I had tried to capture the first moments of the tender love of youth. I wanted to try and do the same thing with a Symbol. I cut the section of the sculpture from a hollow cone, cast two and then mounted them to face each other. I see the image not only as a tender kiss, but as the arms of the lovers forming a knot that will tie them together for life, as a couple, the foundation of a family.


I have found that when I cut a shape from a geometric body like a cone, an ovoid, or a sphere, the balance of the whole form is carried into the section.


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