Beverly Pepper, an American artist born in 1922 and died in 2020, began her career in painting but turned to sculpture after a trip to Angkor Wat in 1960. The effect of time on the Cambodian temple, which appeared to grow with the surrounding banyan trees, had a profound effect on Pepper and became a transformative experience that informed the style defining her sixty-year career. A pioneer in the use of Corten steel in sculpture, she explored the relationship between lyrical forms and nature. Curvae in Curvae rises out of the ground in a sweeping arc that mimics the trees in the distance, and the antique quality of its modern material, together with the illusion of weightlessness despite its size and scale, gives it a contradictory quality that allows it to transcend both time and space.