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Plath Statue to be Unveiled at SmithA bronze statue of the late poet Sylvia Plath will be unveiled by Nicholas Dimbleby, the British sculptor who created it, on Saturday, May 17, at 3 p.m., in a ceremony in the Neilson Library Browsing Room. During the event, Dimbleby, will talk about the symbolism in his sculpture. "The concept I have put forward," he says, "is that, [just] as in the making of a final sculpture in bronze many molds must be made and broken, so it is in the forming of a personality; we must peel away layers to reach the truth...It is an idea that makes real a metaphor that I'm sure Sylvia would like." The 12-inch high statuette, one of a limited edition of 10, was cast from a terra-cotta maquette-or study model-for a full-sized memorial suggested by Elizabeth Sigmund, a friend of Plath to whom she dedicated her novel "The Bell Jar." The statuette has been jointly purchased for the college by the Mortimer Rare Book Room, where it will ultimately reside, and the Friends of the Smith College Libraries. Already housed in the rare book room is a collection of some 4,000 pages of Plath manuscript material, including drafts of poems, journals, letters, books from the poet's library and biographical material. Plath, who graduated from Smith in 1955 and subsequently taught briefly at the college, will be the subject of an exhibition that will be on view in the main hall of Neilson Library from June 11 through August 31. The display will include the statue and material from the Plath Collection. Both the presentation of the statue on Saturday and the Plath exhibition this summer are open free to the public. |
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