My creativity advent calendar 2024: Day 12.
Confession: I fell off the wagon.
I ended my last article by saying I didn’t have a muse and then lost all inspiration for my next post! I spent four days wondering what to write next and then wrote four articles all at once, starting with Day 15 and working back to this one.
I started writing this and then remembered that I’d already written about this sculpture so, on the basis that re-purposing is good, here’s what I wrote in Nov 2020.
https://annhawkins.medium.com/i-like-art-that-i-can-touch-baf6f9e471ac
I like art that I can touch.
I like smooth, curved, tactile surfaces that the palm of my hand can slide over.
I particularly like wood because it’s warm to the touch.
I’ve never been lucky enough to touch this piece by Barbara Hepworth but just looking at it makes me feel calm and relaxed.
Pelagos (‘sea’ in Greek) was inspired by a view of the bay at St Ives in Cornwall where two stretches of land surround the sea on either side. The hollowed-out sculpture has a spiral form resembling a shell, a wave or the roll of a hill. Hepworth wanted the taut strings to express ‘the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills’.
She made it in 1946 from elm and it’s mounted on a base made of oak.
If I owned it I’d probably wear it away!
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Now I’m going to jump to Day 16 and pick up the thread tomorrow!
