EPSTEIN EXPLAINS “DAY AND NIGHT.”

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1929, Page 6

EPSTEIN EXPLAINS “DAY AND NIGHT.”

“'ft was'my idea to make Day’ and ‘Niglvt’ the subjects of the two groups over the entrances to the London Underground Railway building,” said Mr Epstein in the, “Manchester Guardian.” “I took some -time % to arrive •at this, for my first idea was in some way to express traffic in the sculptures the sense of the crowds passing out and in by day and night through the stations and the movements of the trains. But I could npt get a plastic idea for this, and I thought of Day and Night—elemental figures —for the headquarters of the underground movement of London. Although ‘Day’ was unveiled' last, I worked on it first, and it was nearly completed when I turned to ‘Night. It is difficult to describe a sculptural idea for any art has to speak in its own language. Well, ‘Night’ is a mother-figure with her child-man exhausted and sleeping under her protection and beneclicition. ‘Day’ is a figure of the father in - nature, w ith the man-child “facing the light but still holding to the father.”