By Jessica

  This sculpture seems simple, it looks like a few soft curves of pink-purple flesh. Yet it hides an extraordinary mass and silky surface. The indentation in the center is hard to perceive from just looking at it; how deep it goes and where it bends away. You have to go up to it, feel it's texture, you must put your hands on it to get a true understanding of it's shape. The Soft Inverted Q does look like a misshapen, upside-down Q, a massive one, but a Q none the less. I also see the Q as symbolic, if it was the concept of goodness, innocence in its soft, silk-smooth texture and appearance. It looks safe, it shows you all it is. And yet, at the same time it hides, it has one shadowed crevasse, one cold, dark, hidden place where bad things can lurk; a place where you just can't quite see it all, it is just too deep, to dark. I feel the statue is saying in all goodness there is bad, in all innocence there lurks evil. But this does not lead me to believe that this statue is or holds evilness, no, it is merely stating to us that it is there. However, before all the bad, all the dark, all you see portrayed is good, innocence, safety and joy in those soft, silky curves.