"...in the wide streets, where feasting crowds once gathered, jumbled they lay.
In all the streets and roadways bodies lay.
In open fields that used to fill with dancers,
the people lay in heaps.
the country's blood now fills its holes, like metal in a mold;
bodies dissolved—like butter left in the sun."

"Lamentations for the Destruction of Ur" from Thorkild Jacobsen, The Treasures of Darkness: A History of the Mesopotamian Religion

"My Piano: the Fragmentation of Memory" is a series of sculptures that deconstruct a piano and its implications about personal memory, autobiography, narrative, family, music and time.

"Ann Sperry's work exists in the gap between creation and destruction, in that chink of space where our expectations about the world around us can shift.... We take our cues from expectations developed unconsciously over the years, as new experiences trigger the memories of old ones and place the new stimuli in a context where we know how to respond to it. Ann Sperry seeks to manipluate her materials away from their previous uses and, therefore, our preconceived expectations. Still, she relates new artwork to "past life," the associations and memories of her materials."
—Rebecca Fenton

"...For the viewer, Sperry's sculptures are both abstract and yet evocative, metaphoric.  She has produced this latest series, Where is Your Heart, at a time when public concern is focusing on medical advances, genetic discoveries, the debate over health care, and the aging process."
—Gail Levin

"…Scars of destruction, even winds of apocalypse, are suggested in some of these circles…Sperry's steel drums beat sounds of wonder but also of warning." -Michael Brenson