Figure for Landscape by Barbara Hepworth, 1960

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This particular piece, along with its setting, strikes me as a flawless representation of futures-past. I've always considered this piece to be ominous and haunting - the kind of artwork that could easily have been featured in the 1960 adaptation of Wells' The Time Machine: an idol from 50,000 years into our future, left abandoned and mysterious when viewed from yet another 100,000 years further down the timeline.