Quiet Talk Sculpture

Quiet Talk is a small, bronze sculpture by Utah artist Dennis Smith that was installed on the Plaza in 1987. The sculpture features a woman holding a small child in her lap, facing each other with their heads touching. This depiction of sweet embrace is noted by the artist to be whispered conversations of mother and child, creating a profound and spiritual bond that can return years later, even when the child is grown and the mother is far away.

Quiet Talk is a bronze sculpture created by Utah artist Dennis Smith in 1987. Smith's impressionistic style is said to be a window into his views on life - embodying his passion for transcendence and expressing the spirit of the human soul. Many of his works represent the innocence and spontaneity of children and the exuberance of life. Quiet Talk is one of Smith's "small sculptures", featuring a young woman kneeling while embracing a child sitting on her lap, facing one another with their heads touching. From the artist's website, a description of the sculptures second edition (Quiet Talk II) reads:

Whispered conversations between mother and child create a bond that imprints deep into childhood’s most subtle memories. Many years later, when the child is grown and the mother is far away, the memory of mother can return with a force so delicate and warm that it reaffirms the profound and spiritual bond which fused them together so long ago in mortal time.

Quiet Talk II, The Art of Dennis Smith. Accessed December 3rd 2021. https://www.smithsculpture.com/quiet-talk-ii/.

Quiet Talk, City of Fountains. Accessed December 3rd 2021. https://cityoffountains.org/quiet-talk/.