Much of Kate’s work in the past has been in maintaining gardens and natural spaces for people to use as places of reflection. Out of doors everything is governed by the light changing and the atmospheric conditions, affecting how we look, how we listen. A focus of attention, such as the one created in Dulwich Park in 1970 by the installation of Barbara Hepworth’s Two Forms: Divided Circle, can be magical for one passer-by, diffused or even taken for granted by another. When the sculpture was stolen in 2011 its absence became almost more tangible than its presence.
Slashedcheek,averted face,hard to decidewhat's going on- a broken headthe turquoise slicea divorce? Or shieldshot with twobig holes, tunnelsspheres mightlodge in. Onehalf relies on itsopponent half,scissor bladesto isolate and shape,close on the moment.Like a well, one holdsa saucerful of skylight scribbles on.Sounds tricklethrough, as yearsof water do,hollowinga cave,auricular,cockedto the music of drip-dropping.
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