homage to barbara hepworth

this sculpture is my homage to british sculptuor barbara hepworh, whom i think is pretty great. okay, so i can hardly take any credit for this particular piece of art. nature did all the sculpting. i simply did the noticing. let’s call it a team effort. regardless, i’m quite sure barbara would have approved. i like to think she would have been a little over the moon about this particular homage. hepworth had four children, and mother and child was a recurring theme in her work. and, to me, this winter iris leaf looks an awful lot like a reclining mother and child.

i also like this quote of hers i found recently:

“A woman artist is not deprived by cooking and having children, nor by nursing children with measles – one is in fact nourished by this rich life, provided one always does some work each day; even a single half hour, so that the images grow in one’s mind.”

wild iris leaf in winter