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Date: October 22, 2016 12:07AM
The Artist's story is even more beautiful than the sculpture.
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Naked-Truth-towers-over-East-Bay-campus-9973136.php“People sexualize each other. It happens all the time,” said Cochrane, 53. “So I do sculptures of nude women who are just expressing themselves normally.”
The inspiration for “Truth Is Beauty” was a childhood friend of Cochrane’s from Berkeley who was raped when she was 9. The girl had been playing with Cochrane and left to go home, but before she could get there she was snatched from the street and assaulted.
“My mother told me in gory detail what happened,” Cochrane said. “I learned about sex and rape at the same time.”
The sexual assault was never talked about again and the rapist was never caught. Six months ago, Cochrane tracked down the victim of the attack, and they talked it through for the first time.
“What Marco is trying to do is make the the world see past the physicality to the person,” said Cochrane’s creative partner, Julia Whitelaw, 49. “This is very good timing with the national spotlight on the treatment of women. Covering up a woman doesn’t work. That’s not the solution.”
The solution is inscribed in 10 languages at the base of the sculpture. “What Would the World Be Like if Women Were Safe?”