As a small child, Louise Bourgeois used to mold white bread into a figure of her father,
then slowly and deliberately cut off the arms and legs with a knife. She has called this
her "first sculptural solution." A lifetime later, while she enjoys her greatest artistic
recognition at the age of eighty-four, intense feelings rooted in her childhood in
France still come bubbling to the surface to take form in her work.

"Art is an exorcism," she says. "a tool for survival."




Louise/pigeon

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