The holes and gouged surfaces of this are reminiscent of eroded cliffs. According to Moore this fusion of human and forms served as ‘a metaphor of the relationship of humanity with the earth’. The character of that relationship, however, remains open to interpretation. It could suggest a harmonious union of mankind with nature or equally a crisis-ridden sense of isolation and fragmentation.
Gallery label, September 2004
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