Awaiting your Return maquette
bronze hand finished with automotive paint
limited edition of twelve
43 x 17 x 23 cm

 In Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe’s narrative the Little Swimmer represented a young South African Democracy who was embarking on its journey to seek and find its dream of freedom and equality and independence. Of a country who was learning how to together be ‘Walking the Road’ as her public art installation was titled.

There were seven different sculptures of the Little Swimmer Girl as she, sculpture by sculpture stood to tell her story between the city and the sea.

This sculpture ‘Awaiting your Return’  represents the central point of the of the narrative.
It is here that she realizes that the dream that she had been pursuing had offered her the opportunity to fly with it but she had tried to snatch it out of the its free blue sky - claim it for herself.

It flew away, leaving her crouched up and heartbroken, yearning for it to return.
Then the the sculptural story continues: the Dragonfly returns to her, giving her a second chance and inviting her again to come and fly, together with it.