Source 305: The following source is a post on the Artsology website titled ‘The Gravity of Intellect: Thomas Lerooy’s “Weight of Thought”’. It was originally published on 20 April, 2024 at: https://artsology.com/blog/2024/04/the-gravity-of-intellect-thomas-lerooys-weight-of-thought/. (This link may or may not still be operational; if it isn't, we may have redirected it to the WayBackMachine archive).

‘The sculpture, with its exaggerated head and diminutive torso, stands as a powerful symbol of the burdens that knowledge and thought can impose on the human spirit’, and that ‘Its themes of mental burden and the search for meaning’, which ‘Lerooy sought to encapsulate in bronze – a material as timeless as the human condition it represents’, ‘continues to resonate with audiences’

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