Mediums: painted wood, stainless steel.
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, the USA).
The work is one of a series of Bourgeois’s Personnages, created between 1945 and 1955. Like in the vast majority of the sculptor’s works, it has an autobiographical character and tells about the complicated relationship between the daughter and her mother. The statue is a long, pointed rod, resembling a thick needle or spindle – the instruments that mother of Bourgeois, a weaver by profession, constantly worked with. A variety of wooden spiraling forms are strung on this base. Together with other figures, the series was placed in a specific order in special compartments and demonstrated together.