Agrippa Ndongwe carves a family as one continuous line. Here the line loops through four round heads, mother, father and two children, without ever breaking, his way of saying that family is always together and never lost.
He treats the stone the way a painter treats a single unbroken brush stroke, and he is considered among the most skilled of the artists working in this style. The open spaces matter as much as the stone; the piece is balanced so that air and rock hold each other up.
Warm russet and flecked throughout, it rises 15 inches on its own oval base.
