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Afloat
Afloat
Afloat
Afloat
Afloat
Afloat
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Afloat

© the artist. Image credit: Nicholas Sinclair 1998 (courtesy of the artist). Lawrence Suss/Art UK 2019.

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The site for ‘Afloat’ on the end of a small promontory was selected to enable the viewer, when looking seawards, to see the horizon through the central hole in the sculpture. It appears as a line following through the lines of longitude on the sculpture. The blue-green patination forms a link to the ever-changing colour of the sky and the sea. The shape comes from a torus, a speculative form for how black holes might look. Based on a globe, the points at the north and south poles are pushed together through the sphere, forming a central hole where they meet. Viewing ‘Afloat’ from the beach-end of the promontory is, therefore, seeing it from what would have been one of the poles. The concentric radial indentations around its surface are the longitudinal lines.

Title

Afloat

Date

1995

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H (?) x W 250 x D (?) cm

Accession number

BN1_LS_S025

Acquisition method

commissioned by Brighton Borough Council, with funding from the National Lottery

Work type

Sculpture

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

1998

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

on the bronze base of the sculpture, facing the road: AFLOAT Hamish Black 1998

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Located at

Grand Junction Road, Brighton

BN1 1NB

Set opposite East Street, at the end of East Street Groyne, west of the Palace Pier.