"Visitation" Sculpture by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas

"Visitation" Bronze Sculpture by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas.
American, 21st century.
Dimensions include the base.

Visitation appears in the artist's monograph, Strong-Cuevas Sculpture: Premonitions in Retrospect, with the description from the artist:

Visitation is an unusual piece in the sense that it illustrates a fact about the mind.
Neurologists and psychologists stop in front of the sculpture to explain with surprise that it shows something about the brain: the fact that when we look at the sculpture, noting intellectually that it has two faces, one more abstract on the left, and one on the right that is slipping into the one on the left, we cannot with our eyes apprehend them simultaneously. We jump from one face to the other in order to see it/them. Clarity, simultaneity of vision, in this case, is not given to the brain.
I did not intend this when I was making the sculpture, but it seems that I hit on a fact intuitively about the mind/brain.

Strong-Cuevas is an American artist whose work deals with philosophical, psychological, and cosmic concepts. She is best known for her monumental sculpture, such as her 16-foot tall Running Heads that are on permanent exhibition at the Pocantico Center in Tarrytown, New York. Strong-Cuevas began her work in sculpture in the 1960s, working under John Hovannes at the Art Students’ League of New York, and was exhibited early on by Alexander Iolas, the gallerist who famously gave Andy Warhol his first solo show. Her work has since been exhibited in galleries, museums, and art fairs across the United States and Europe.

Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lived and worked in New York from the 1960s until her death in 2023. Her work features in the permanent collections of the Bruce Museum, Heckscher Museum, Guild Hall Museum, Grounds for Sculpture, Federal Reserve Board, Pocantico Center, and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum.