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During the almost half century I have been a sculptor I remarked that after periods of tense and controlled work I feel a strong urge for a kind of free lyrical expansion that cannot be stopped. So came my "Transparents" in 1925 after a long period of hard fight for a new language.
So came in 1942 my "Transparents" here in this country, after the tense years of war and my flight from Paris. So came my "Variations on Chisel" after the fire [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough] in my studio in 1952.

And now after a few years of working on my Virgin and the sculpture for Fairmont Park I literally exploded into these semi-automatics.

Anyway, I don't intend to turn this process into a durable way of working. I hope with these 33 semi-automatics my obsession will have come to an end, having enriched my imagination with more freedom.   

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