Voyage

The meticulously crafted, mirrored surface of Mark Swart's Voyage contrasts with the rusted plinth it sits upon.
This juxtaposition heightens the visual lightness of the sculpture, and when combined with a form that delicately twists upwards, conveys its theme of passage through shape and material. Perhaps most famously, Homer's Odyssey, has defined the narrative of a voyage in Western culture. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is travelling from Troy, where the Greeks have been fighting a decade long war, to Ithaca, his home. Along the way he meets both mortal men and Gods and these encounters take on symbolic meaning for the protagonist. The mirrored surface of Voyage, in which viewers can catch glimpses of themselves, invite viewers to undertake, or at least imagine, their own voyage.