WILLOW TREE MOTHER AND SON FIGUREWILLOW TREE MOTHER AND SON FIGURE This piece features a standing figure in a cream dress, with her arms around a young boy in a cream shirt and dark pants I was thinking about the relationship between a mother and a son of about nine or ten that certain age when boys start fiercely asserting their independence and resisting hugs and kisses from their mothers. And yet, at the same time, secretly needing and wanting them. I wanted this sculpture to