Barbara Hepworth in the Palais studio at work on the wood
carving Hollow Form with White Interior, 1963 Photograph: Val Wilmer © Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Not exact matches
Since they began
forming 12,000 years ago in glacial
hollows carved out during the last ice age, peat bogs have been squirrelling away carbon that would otherwise leak into the atmosphere.
The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and
formed flying buttresses, sometimes
carved into blackened chambers,
hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»
The use of these skeletal frameworks originated in ceramic works when I began
hollowing out (
carving)
formed lumps of clay and treating the result as a starting point for a larger ceramic or stainless steel work.
Such an imaginative reworking of an earlier piece would be consistent with Hepworth's economy of production and may be compared to the incorporation of earlier
carvings in a bronze such as
Hollow Form with Inner
Form (Tate Gallery T03148) of the same year.