“My windows needed cleaning one year so I hired a man to do the job as some of them had to be done from a ladder outside. All went well until he came indoors to do the other side of the windows. This little sculpture, leaning on a shard of stained glass given to me by my friend Jacquie Ohora and mounted on a chunk of painted wood, was sitting on a table in front of the living room windows beside a large lamp. I should have moved the sculpture out of the way because, in his enthusiasm. the window cleaner knocked the lamp over and smashed my little sculpture – not actually to smithereens, but enough so as not to be repairable. He was very apologetic, of course, but there wasn’t anything either of us could do about it. The windows need cleaning again now but so far I’ve just been wondering whether I could learn to live with them the way they are……because there are some things I can’t move out of the way anymore……..”
It’s a sorry story when one considers the pose of the figure seems natural and well expressed in terms of form and proportion, it could indeed be a little treasured goddess. The sunshine does a great job of describing the form with dramatic lighting, and the shard of stained glass is whimsical but definitely very clever in how that whim has created a rhythmical variation in the shadows.
