Girl
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2003 Bronze 177 x 60 x 50cm |
Originally conceived as a portrait, this young girl is a unique figure in Anna’s repertoire. She is not a completely realistic mirror of the sitter, but a figure who has emerged from the passage of time. In capturing the vivaciousness of youth, Anna has extracted a sensibility that is eternal, that transmits as though outside of time. The face and the body are of timeless proportions, of a transcending vision that resembles the sitter at her age, but is also likely the sitter as she would be if she never altered with time. To instil such a persona takes creative courage: building on the existing likeness and features of someone we recognize, yet refining them into a more harmonious energy that conveys universal elements of youth, innocence, beauty and their earthly flowering. The young girl steps forward, but stands still. She is both moving and not moving – somewhere in our space but also somewhere outside of our space. |