Skipping
- This particular sculpture started as an outgrowth of Mackenzie’s various paintings depicting children with large heads and broad smiles. Many of these paintings incorporated children jumping rope; an action the artist felt captured the essence of childhood freedom. The images are often staged in vast barren landscapes, yet the children within them seem oblivious to their sparse surroundings. Thorpe uses irony to further the notion that no matter what conditions a child is forced to live in, they will always find a place to play and be free.
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