L'Arrêt de Mort
2007
L'Arrêt de Mort - Thom Puckey
Marble
Life size
Collection Mark Peet Visser, Haarsteeg. This sculpture came about after i'd read these following sentences in Maurice Blanchot's novel 'Death Sentence' (French title 'L'Arrêt de Mort'): 'A year or two earlier, a young woman had shot at me with a revolver, after vainly waiting for me to disarm her. But I did not love that young woman. As it happened, she killed herself some time after that.' I borrowed the title without asking.