The White Bird of Childhood
1975
Carrara marble mounted on a ¼“ stainless steel disc, 22¼” in diameter, which revolves on a gunmetal pin and socket fixture in a wooden base.
Height: 11¼” Length: 17″
“This carving celebrates my earliest conscious memory of something compellingly beautiful — probably a swan or a large gull, on a lake. It also commemorates a sculptor who died in youth, whose widow gave me the marble block. This work in closely related to my Migrating Bird (1966).” Hugo Powell