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Rozanne Hawksley, Look on small beautiful things
Rozanne Hawksley Look on small beautiful things VII, 2008-13 Stitched bone assemblage H130 x W120 x D20 mm
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Look on small beautiful Things

About bones, you ask me why? Referring here to the smaller pieces, a series, I can offer no one reason or rather any intellectual reasoning.

In retrospect my life-long interest and curiosity in bone began when I was about eleven years old and after a long stay in hospital. As an evacuee, we, as a family were billeted in a house belonging to a Royal Naval Surgeon. A lot of his books were there, and on carefully looking in them, I was fascinated by the large volumes of diseases and surgery with such beautiful engravings of anatomy.

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