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== Interpretation ==
[[File:Barbara Hepworth Single Form Battersea.JPG|thumb|Hepworth's [[Signle Form|''Single Form (Memorial)'']] in [[Battersea Park]], London, dating to the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |title='Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430770?section=official-list-entry |website=Historic England |access-date=19 September 2024}}</ref>]]
The work shows the influence of modernist sculptor [[Barbara Hepworth]] on Merchant, who was a clergyman that turned to sculpture late in life. Merchant stated that he was inspired by the river valley setting of the piece. He described it as resembling "a tulip bud with the front leaf pulled out" and that it was intended to suggest the fragility of nature. [[George T. Noszlopy]] and Fiona Waterhouse writing in 2005 described it as "symbolic of nature's struggle for life" and "reminiscent of a sprouting seed".<ref name=LUP/>
 
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