Learning To Fly
bronze
limited edition of eight
160 x 100 x 40 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.

It takes me by surprise how much her  expression can shift as the light changes... thoughtful - hopeful - doubtful - determined
All flicker by as the day ebbs and flows.
Much like life, I guess.
Here I am masking off the bronze to set the lines for her Bathing Costume.
I paint her with 2K Automotive paint ‘Ferrari paint’ as my children grandly call it in lines of red and white.
An echo of the chevron signs that direct the way as we drive.... a memory of the Moullie Point lighthouse whose seascape site she was honoured to share.