inside the safety of the shell [the figures] are completely soft and vulnerable

As well as assisting Henry Moore with carving, Meadows made sets for Existential theatre such as The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre. The sense of human helplessness is considered in Help. In polished bronze, a seemingly fleshy spherical form is crushed sideways between the hard, heavy anvil and hammer forms. Help manages to convey vulnerability in hard metal.