The Tempest Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe WA 2015
UPDATE:
Elyssa Sykes-Smith has been named as
winner of the Sculpture at Scenic
World Award 2015
Sculpture at Scenic World Project
2015
“A Canopy of Thoughts” is a site-specific
installation that evolves around the notion of a
grasped moment of clarity amongst the haze of
uncertainty.
Every single person exists with a network of
thoughts, of crisscrossing ideas, dilemmas and dreams
that they generate and carry along with them
consciously and subconsciously. In sculpture the
physical evokes the emotional: Expressed visually
these thoughts form a canopy above us –
simultaneously protecting and blocking us. The
protagonist in the artwork peers up into the
overwhelming canopy of thoughts and in a moment of
clarity reaches up to connect with a focused idea. We,
as the protagonists in our own lives, become the roots
for these thoughts to become formed ideas which can
then be acted upon.
www.elyssasykes-smith.com