Upright Internal/External Form (1952-3)

"This sculpture reflects the interplay between abstract and figurative forms in Moore's work. 'I have done other sculptures based on this idea of one form being protected by another' Moore recalled. 'I suppose in my mind was also the Mother and Child idea and of birth and the child in embryo. All these things are connected in this interior and exterior idea.' Later versions of the sculpture were made in bronze and elm wood, and a twenty foot high cast is sited in the atrium of Three First National Plaza in Chicago."

This afternoon, the Minx and I went up to Tate Modern and this piece by Henry Moore was my favourite: not too abstract! We also went up to look at the Rothko paintings, which I appreciated all the more after recently hearing a programme on the radio about how the vandalised one was restored. I hadn't realised quite how much technique went into these wonderful, huge blocks of colour.

After that we strolled across the Millennium Bridge and just as we reached the north side, it started to pour, so we took refuge in a pub where the Minx started work on a sketch of the London skyline and I did nothing very productive at all :-)