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That sort of poetic searching and low-key, elegiac mood also
rests over the sculpture "Woman With Lion Head", whose
elongated, whole figure sits in its chair and gazes out
towards a distant land. Her severed and scantily fastened
arms, rendered her incapable of attaining what she aspires
in her realm of experience. The connection between body and
hands is broken, and thereby even the connection between
thought and action; between dream and reality. But her
paralysis and the physical lack of power in the string-tied
limbs, merely reinforces the presence of those mental
processes that one perceives in her face. And most clearly,
Widenfalk has portrayed the infinities of the inner world in
the large marble work, "The Longing Woman From Genoa". Like
surrounded by the harmlessness of beauty, she sits as though
mummified on her throne, without arms or legs. The amputated
body is like a tightly packed, softly rounded clod of
pulsating organic material. Her yearning eyes will never
reach their final goal. With a longing as petrified and
immortalized as the inner ocean of emptiness, from which all
of our searching originates - the void - which from the
moment it arises can never be filled, as Jean Paul Sartre
has described the irrevocable existence of missing.
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