Single Form (Memorial), Dame Barbara Hepworth made the sculpture on the south shore of the lake as a personal memorial to her friend, and then United Nations Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died in an air crash in 1961. Before his untimely death, they had discussed a scheme for the new United Nations building in New York.
“All landscape needs a figure… working in the abstract way seems to release one’s personality and sharpen the perceptions so that in observation of humanity as landscape it is the wholeness of inner initiation which moves one so profoundly. The components fall into place and one is no longer aware of the detail except as the necessary significance of wholeness and unity…. A rhythm of form which has its roots in earth but reaches outwards towards the unknown experiences of the future. The thought underlying this form is, for me, the delicate balance the spirit of man maintains between his knowledge and the laws of the universe”.
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