Jaume Plensa (b. Barcelona 1955)

I reviewed a book called The Crown Fountain by Hatje Cantz (this photo is from the internet):

This quote is p.196 and had some ressonance for me:  ".... the enigmatic Sphinx at Gaza.  Is Plensa playing these ancient guardians at their own game?  .... especially in the female faces there is a benevolent maternalism with all its caring and protective associations.  The slow smile that falls so benignly upon us.  What are so many of those deities if not a personification of the mother figure that echoes in our own psyches?