The Gossips

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The Gossips

One of her smallest sculptures, but a COLASSAL song: Part 5: "The Gossips", from Jake Heggie and Gene Sheer's "Camille Claudel: Into the Fire" This is another extraordinary movement to this cycle and the one where Camille's despair reaches it's final climax as she asks repeatedly, "Is it him?" in hopes that Rodin was coming for her. He wasn't. And it devastated her.

"What is in my hands ... ? What is in my head ... "