| If you ever get the chance to meet sculptor, Larry McLaughlin it becomes very easy and convincing to find the heart in his work. Not knowing him or seeing his work for the first time you instantly realize a calming friendliness in McLaughlin's anthropomorphic figures that invite and welcome you into their world of playful dalliances and carefree expression.
When exhibiting his work, it seems like each piece requires you to slow down your pace and take the time to know them, to speak with them....musing on their issues, their materials and their eternal themes of questions towards love, life and death.
These carefree anthropomorphic figures quickly become friends and an ensemble of sculptures can eloquently form a colloquy at which point you suddenly are surprised to perceive things in a new way as they accept you as you are and at the same time, asking you to be one with them.
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