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Flight

By  Jan Blake 2006

John Farnham

Dimensions
arcs 420cm,silk 1200cm x 1400cm x 100cm

Courtesy of
Hammerson Plc

There is a sense of counterpoint and balance between the transparency of the painted silk which appears to support the weight and earthiness of the heavy steel arcs. The piece is set in an enclosed glass atrium between two floors of office space. The building was being refurbished after the Bishopsgate bomb. Thematically the piece relates loosely as a metaphor for the phoenix rising from the flames.

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