My World is a work that was sculpted by a member of Sweet Briar College's Class of 1991, Susan Overstreet Carter. Currently, the work is in situ on the Sweet Briar College campus, directly outside of the Pannell Gallery between Pannell, Manson, and Randolph.

               The work is a concrete and clay sculpture of a child sitting inside a circular, barrel or pipe-like structure. The child figure is done in clay and relatively realistic in appearance. Along these lines, the figure is approximately the actual size of a four year old child and is a monochromatic flesh tone. The barrel itself is done in concrete. The tubing ensconces the child, who is lying in a fetal position within the structure.

               My World is thought to symbolize a mother and child, wherein the child is still within the womb of the mother. In this way, the child is alive in its own world, a world uncorrupted by outside influences. The baby is completely sustained by the body of the mother. This interpretation is supported by the fact that the child figure is placed within the concrete structure, in a manner that protects it from the elements outdoors. The fact that the barrel is concrete may represent the concrete protection a mother's body provides for an unborn child.

Sculpture