Looking Into Your Eyes

bronze half lifesize with patina
hand finished with 2K automotive paint
limited edition of seventeen
77 x 90 x 17 cm I 53 × 30 × 7 in

This was the freeze frame moment in my 18 sculpture ‘Walking the Road’ story installation when the little swimmer girl meets face to face, the dream she had been pursuing all her life.
She has to make a bold choice : ‘how do I make this mine?’

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