Freedom of Youth

Freedom of Youth, 1986

Rosie Sandifer

American
Bronze

Texas Tech University
Health and Human Sciences Building
East courtyard of Health and Human Sciences

The subject of this piece, a young girl swinging on a rope, expresses the essence of a child’s carefree spirit through its sheer simplicity of movement. “As I watched the easy rhythm of my daughter, Jamie, swinging on a rope…in our backyard,” Sandifer remembers, “I realized a truth…the freedom of a youth. We adults lose those peaceful and simple moments in our hectic pace of life.”