Henry Moore (1898 - 1986):
Large Upright Internal External Form 1981-2
Womb, coffin, embracing arms, protecting, foetus,
man-to-be inside the parent, woman-to-be inside the parent, double
womb, phallic and vulvic interwoven, cycle of life, conception,
birth, death, renewal, eternal dance of being and becoming, nurturing, containing,
love, child, love making, cycle of the child becoming in
their turn the parent, enclosing, enwrapping, enveloping, procreative, fertility, fecundity.
There in all seasons, in all winds and
weathers, in light and in dark, in moonlight, in starlight, frost
rimed, mist wreathed, sun backed, wind whipped, rain lashed.
And
the sheep graze and walk on.
I passing by on a summer's day with one I love, she saying some words, I others. I could see both the womb and the coffin, she only the womb. The sculpture's shadow now playing in my mind, it enigma's and ambiguities.
I passing by on a summer's day with one I love, she saying some words, I others. I could see both the womb and the coffin, she only the womb. The sculpture's shadow now playing in my mind, it enigma's and ambiguities.
