كوري

"We have all worked hard to create a different foundation for my daughter, age 12 at the time of posing, to build on—a safer one, emotionally and physically. She knows the broad outline of the family story but is not asked to carry everyone else’s unresolved pain.

As to the sculpture, it is inspired by an ancient Greek Kore, one of the full-size sculptures of Athenian maidens. My sculpture has a distinctly different emotion and sculptural style than the prior five sculptures. Her expression is, I believe, one of innocence, intelligence, optimism, and a tiny bit of a smirk. Not burdened.

Perhaps the cumulative work by my parents and later by me has succeeded.

As a public sculpture, Kore’s optimism has been welcomed in two important institutions around the world, outside of the exhibition."