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                                                      "The Question---What is your hope" ?

                      I would like to make sculpture that would rise from the water and tower in the air--

                      that carried conviction and vision that had not existed before

                     that rose from a natural pool of clear water to sandy shores with rocks and plants

                     that men could view as natural without reverence or awe

                 but to whom such things were natural becuase they were

                statements of peacful pursuit--and joined in the

                                                           phenomenon of life.....

I want to show the wonder of man, that flowing water,rocks,clouds,vegatation,have for the man in peace                                                            who glories in existence

                                       It will say that in peace, we have time

                                       that a man has been fed, has worked,

                             that hands and minds and tools and material made a symbol

                                                           to the elevation of vision"

                                                                 David Smith

                                                              American Sculptor

                                    From the text of David Smith by David Smith - abridged