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extinction for this female figure and, inexorably for her creator, the
ice child merges her cold body with melting snow. Edward Onslow Ford's Snowdrift,
1901, his valedictory sculpture of marble, agate and lapis lazuli,
cased in glass, is pierced by the gazes of an old woman and a young
girl - two sculpted heads, at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port
Sunlight. A sensory geography is recast here for new spectators as a
topography of desire, proposing a space in which lovers may project
memories of the body. Perfections and imperfections of the loved object. |
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