Levitated Lady

We had an old friend to see us today from Worcestershire, to go on the 80-minute Centenary Tour of the Bloomsbury Group farmhouse at Charleston, in the shadow of the Downs.

Photography is unfortunately not permitted inside the house, but there is plenty of interest in the garden, including Quentin Bell's 1973 work, Levitated Lady.

The entire sculpture (made of fibreglass) is supported by means of a prop concealed in her hair. Somewhat unfortunately, the curators have erected a stick fence behind the sculpture to keep visitors from getting too close (and from falling in the lake), which rather gives the impression when you first enter the garden of an unfortunate woman skewered like a hog roasting on a spit.