touchstone

sculpture

2006

75cm

Hollington red
sandstone

Dean stone plinth

private collection, Hampshire

another work?

... later, as babies start to move around under their own steam, they manage their growing independence by checking back to the parent's face for clues about how to behave... The attachment figure becomes the touchstone, the source of social learning.
Why Love Matters - how affection shapes a baby's brain - Sue Gerhardt (2004)