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Monday, August 25, 2014

When He Died









When he died, a wife commissioned this sculpture, as an expression of her love.

Asleep





In Victoria, Australia, there is a sculpture at Mt Macedon Cemetery to depict a wife’s eternal love for her husband. This is the unique headstone, or gravestone, of Laurence Matheson (1930 – 1987). It’s a marble sculpture called “Asleep” that his wife commissioned from artist Peter Schipperheyn, to express her undying love…






*original post date March 25, 2010*




4 comments:

  1. very beautiful tribute , she lays atop of him but cold on the surface and warm on the inside from his love for her.

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  2. A forever love,
    beyond any border
    beyond any barrier,
    even death....

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  3. Images often tell fascinating stories
    as in this one....
    Just feeling the
    vision of an immense
    endless love
    that not even
    death can hinder....

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