Anita Denholm News
Unveiled today at St Helens on the ”Shoreline Trail” as part of the Bay of Fires Art Festival a magnificent large stone sculpture by Anita Denholm.
“I’m so thrilled to know your impressions as a viewer……
I have noticed everyone who looks at it smiles…… and we need more smiles in the world”
My personal name for ‘her’ (or what ever gender people perceive) is Liena Nire’ (li eena ni ree) which comes from a written list of words or early Tasmanian indigenous dictionary collated in the 1850’s.
Liena - water
Nire’ - heal…
The sculpture title is “Looking across the Tracks of Time and Tides”
So, it is my hope that this sculpture will imbue people viewing or walking passed with a sense of calm, taking time to breathe, slow down, reflect, and to refresh…
To look out at the Bay and ponder on the times and peoples past, present and future….
It is everyone, anyone and nobody…
Looking out and thinking on those people of the past, the present and future.
Looking out for someone returning across the bay or dreaming of being out there enjoying life.
A sense of calm or reflection. The stone is carved, drilled and some parts natural… This speaks to the ‘story’ of the stone and how it has come about from natural edge of the quarry to drilling, blasting…. Liberating from bedrock, transport to stone yard.
A lifetime of planning as a sculpture.. until the opportunity meets preparedness. Selection of the ‘right’ block, carving long hours to liberate the forms inside…
Final resting place to begin a ‘life’ or quiet, serene contemplation - gazing.
“Looking out across the Tracks of Time and Tides” says Anita Denholm.