I began my journey into the beguiling world of the French-German Dadaist Poet/Artist Hans Jean Arp (1886 ? 1966) in October 2016. On reading his poetry I was struck by the overwhelming sense of love he had for his first wife, the Swiss artist and dancer Sophie Taeuber (1889 ? 1943) and the influence she had on Arp?s approach and thinking. In Taeuber it seemed Arp had found a like-minded collaborator; together they sought to find the inner essence of things which Arp felt could be found ?in life and death, waking and sleeping?. When Sophie died prematurely of carbon monoxide poisoning, Arp felt he could still see her, that they lived in reality. It was this idea that drew me in and became the driving force behind Amphora. Made up of 7 fragments, Amphora reflects the Duo-Collages and Duo-Drawings Arp and Taeuber created.