Louise Bourgeois | Art21 | Preview from Season 1 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2001)

[Intro music]

[birds chirping]

and instead of trying to rival with the height of the building

I have made a sculpture which is

so discrete and so sensitive

that my sculpture doesn't have a bone of contention

with the building

[birds chirping]

The beauty of it is that the block of black stone is one with this

so that is quite something

now, this is lost in a lot of people

they don't know how beautiful it is, they don't have to know.

What I'm concerned with this here is vandalism, right?

You see how fragile it is, just to, I'm not going to give you ideas now,

but just a knock on this, and the thing is over.

so it is a leap of faith to put this in an open space

but I take a chance.