"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas
This colourful giant sculpture along the Southbank Promenade in Melbourne is not representing an alien, as the majority of viewers may think. -green - huge eyes - You will react astonished if I tell you that this piece of art by Deborah Halpern is called Ophelia. The artist was inspired by the character from Hamlet, full of both love and sadness in order to describe the face of Melbourne.
Always on the Yarra River Promenade you may find " The Guardians" sculptures by Simon Rigg
Across the river the sculpture GAYIP – the Travellers
by Nadim Karam with an indigenous artist Mandy Nicholson
Gayip is the ceremonial meeting of the different Australian Aborigines clans, where they would interact with each other through stories, dance, storing telling. Gayip is also used to signify community or gathering.
We are all travellers.. in the jungle of this world.. everyone - with its story - carries its suitcase packed with hope and dreams... and Art is simply an other way of keeping a diary ... we describe with different colours and shapes our "individual" world...
