Lucia Wilcox’s sculpture from 1968–70 presents a compact, highly concentrated study of enclosure, depth, and organic form. The work is built around a rounded white mass that opens inward to a deep circular recess, at the center of which sits a smaller dark element. This contrast immediately draws the eye toward the sculpture’s interior, transforming a simple biomorphic shape into something more psychologically charged.

The form can suggest many associations—a seed pod, an eye, a cell, or a vessel—without settling into literal representation. Wilcox uses this ambiguity to give the sculpture both a natural and almost symbolic presence. The smooth outer volume feels protective and self-contained, while the recessed center introduces a sense of interior space, making the work feel as much about what is hidden within as about its external silhouette.

Created between 1968 and 1970, the sculpture reflects Wilcox’s late interest in reducing form to essential relationships of volume, void, and contrast. The small dark center acts almost like a nucleus, intensifying the sense that the larger white form is alive or in a state of growth. The result is a deceptively simple work whose power comes from the tension between surface and interior, openness and containment.