sculptureworks, inc.
link to about us link to sculptors link to library exhibits link to lectures and workshops link to shows and sales link to commissions link to world tours
link to from clay to bronze link to kids site link to support and volunteer link to resources link to news link to calendar link to contact us
hollis williford hollis williford

Hollis Williford
"The Need to Know II"
Bronze
12" L

Also Available:
"The Need to Know"
Bronze, Edition of 10

6' L x 40" W x 15" H

Also Available:
"The Need to Know" Relief
Bronze, Open Edition
15 3/4" L x 9 1/4" H


the need to know II

"Childhood and early adolescence are difficult times in the life of any individual. They are times of acquiring of new ideas, exercise of creative imagination and awareness of new feelings and sensitivities. Hungry minds are developing and being re-born into young manhood or womanhood."
"Looking back on those stages of development in my own life, it seems to have been an age of discovery with a need for excitement and escape to adventure through books. It was a magic era of "Treasure Island", "Huckleberry Finn", and "Call of the Wild", classics that were to shape all my future attitudes, both personal and professional. Reading satisfied my need for privacy, developed my literary skills, and introduced me to the fine arts. Somehow it was an escape mechanism for short periods of time from the world around me that I was still too young and inexperienced to deal with."
"I'm not saying it was a singular effort because I had help, encouragement and guidance. I was fortunate enough to have a mother who read to me before I could spell, a father who took me hunting and fishing on the river and a grandfather who showed me the skills of creation with a pocket knife while sitting around the woodpile."
"The sculpture "The Need to Know" is a sculpture born of this childhood reminiscence. It was a time when a boy and his dog could relax under a shade tree and still travel to all the remote corners of the world by means of fiction, fact and fantasy. This sculpture celebrates reading as a doorway to creativity and imagination."
"I had a professor once who said that "becoming educated was the life long pursuit of individuals to find out who they really are". Reading and scholarship are not the total formula; they only reduce the number of footsteps and lessen the pain and mileage of first hand experience."
"So I suppose this sculpture was a subtle message to children that there is another exciting world waiting beyond video games and Star Wars entertainment. Also, it is a plea to parents to teach their children well; to be understanding and tolerant of their childrens' "need to know". The only price paid is empathy, affection, and personal time." - Hollis Williford, 1986


Click here to return to Hollis Williford's main page.


Copyright © 2001 - 2014.  Sculptureworks, Inc.  All rights reserved.