Anticipating her later art — such as the well - known La Fillette (1968), a more literal representation of phallus, testicles, and labia — Labyrinthine Tower subverts the traditional concept of sculpture as erect form: it remains unclear whether its spiraling segments are rising
toward full extension or sinking into flaccidity.
(Face away from stairs, place hands on stair, fingers facing body, feet on floor with knees bent; bend elbows to 90 degrees, lowering body
toward floor; Press arms back to
full extension.)