Bory Jenő’s sculpture and poem for his fifteenth wedding anniversary. Already grown together, this double-portrait sculpture depicts the couple as one. The sculpture speaks for itself: the two heads become one, symbolising the inseparability of the spouses’ destinies.
“Fifteen years are a long time in one body…” The words of the poem inscribed on the sculpture’s pedestal evoke the weight and beauty of the years lived together.
Fifteen years are a long time in one body.
This sculpture was made in clay to remember them.
But it is clay no longer; it has been through fire, through great fire,
like my heart through the fifteen years that have passed.
Hard as marble, it will not pass away
unless death’s hammer strikes it down.
Death’s hammer, have you eyes, can you see?
We have been fused and welded. We have grown together, indeed;
we make but one. We are one for ever.
It would be a pity to break such unity,
should your urge to kill come upon you. Surely you understand.
Then your task will be easy; one blow will suffice.