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In the summer of 1977 Caro was invited to be artist-in-residence at the Emma Lake summer workshop 200 miles north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This sculpture is part of th This sculpture is part of the ‘Emma Series’ that he started there, and which was finished after he embarked on his calligraphic pieces. It is a significant work, in that it spans a period of change. The open form of Emma Scribble allows the viewer to see many compositions within the whole, as the form changes markedly from altered viewpoints. Here Caro has reintroduced coloured paint, as well as using the raw surface of rusted steel protected with varnish.