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[[translate(episode,'audioCredit') || translate(episode,'credit')]]South African artist Ledelle Moe’s *Untitled* sits along the trail deep in the woods, a boulder-like form of a human figure curled into a ball. The sculpture resembles natural outcroppings of rock formations and provokes questions about history, monumentality, permanence, and fragility. Moe finds this a remarkable setting for *Untitled*, enclosed upon itself as it is in relation to the breathing space within the trees. “The area is very ephemeral,” she says, “which emphasizes the boulder-like quality of the piece and how stationary it is relative to [the site’s] moving qualities”—the fleeting sunlight, shifting leaves, and swaying grasses. One has the sense of coming upon *Untitled* unaware, perhaps intruding on a moment of rest in the dappled shade, stumbling upon this cocoon of introspection.
Ledelle Moe, *Untitled*, 2007, concrete and steel, H. 72 × W. 108 × D. 96 in., Courtesy of Ledelle Moe