Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2020
Polished stainless steel serves as the primary symbolic medium here, carrying cultural associations of technological achievement, industrial refinement, and contemporary aesthetic values while simultaneously functioning as a mirror that dissolves the boundary between object and environment—a material choice that may suggest interconnection and environmental consciousness. The biomorphic forms evoke archetypal water symbolism found across human cultures: water as life source, as purification element, as symbol of emotional depth and unconscious flow, as representation of time's passage and transformation. The vertical elements rising from the horizontal pool create an axis mundi configuration, the ancient symbolic structure connecting earthly and celestial realms, here rendered in contemporary material vocabulary. The aperture or void formed within the right element holds particular symbolic resonance—the circle or oval has traditionally represented wholeness, completion, and cyclical return, while as an opening it suggests threshold, passage, and the invitation to see through or beyond immediate perception. The undulating horizontal base embodies the wave archetype, that fundamental natural pattern representing rhythm, periodicity, and the eternal pulse underlying apparent chaos. The mirror surface itself carries rich symbolic potential: reflection as self-knowledge, as truth-telling, as the doubling that reveals hidden aspects. The integration of sculpture with water feature creates symbolic dialogue between solid and liquid states, between permanence and flux, potentially evoking philosophical traditions that find unity within apparent opposites. The number two appears significant—two vertical elements creating balance and dialogue, suggesting duality, relationship, and the dynamic tension from which harmony emerges. Compositionally, the rising and falling curves may be read allegorically as representing life cycles, emotional states, or the natural rhythms of expansion and contraction that govern organic existence. The work's site-specific nature, designed for contemplation across a reflective pool, creates viewing conditions traditionally associated with meditation and introspection, inviting symbolic reading of the water surface as consciousness and the sculpture as thoughts arising from its depths.
Often community environments are polluted by the inter- and intra-personal dissonances of their inhabitants which results in visible and invisible chaos in the surroundings. The unconscious effect of this disorder is that inhabitants regress into restlessness. This habitual and cyclical agitation influences the body, mind, and spirit. The sculptures guide, groom, purify, and strengthen the positive "chi" of a space, focusing on pleasant and peaceful outcomes. With a subtle shift in their environment, the public is guided towards a balance between their inner and external realities.