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Description: | A lattice-like steel structure in the shape of a bottle set an angle in a bed of bark chips. The bottle has a steel 'cork'. On close examination the 22mm thick lattice proves to be formed of a hand-written message (the artist's) which has inside it another hand-written script (that of Coosje van Bruggen, the artist's wife) arranged in a spiral. The bottle, the inner text and the cork are all painted in polyurethane enamel - white, blue and black respectively. The outer text is taken from the log of Captain Cook's first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. It reads, We had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole passage of the planet Venus over the Sun's disk'. The inner text is from a 1987 poem, 'Memos of a Gadfly', by van Bruggen about her childhood in Amsterdam: I like to remember seagulls in full flight gliding over the ring of canals.' Appropriately, the sculpture is sited beside a small ornamental lake in a new, centrally-located park. Additional Information: A tribute to Captain Cook (1728-79). Cook joined the merchant navy in 1746 and the Royal Navy in 1755. In 1768 he commanded his first expedition to the South Pacific to witness the transit of Venus in the course of which he charted the coasts of New Zealand and made a detailed survey of the eastern coast of Australia. Four years later he made a second voyage to the South Pacific on which he did not achieve his central goal, that of discovering the southern continent, but did discover a number of islands. In 1776 he set off on a third voyage, this time in the hope of finding the North West Passage from the Pacific end. He succeeeded in making a survey of much of the north American and Siberian coasts. However, in its third year the expedition was cut short when he was tragically killed in a scuffle with islanders on the beach at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. | Subjects: | Sculpture | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Oldenburg, Claes Sculptor: van Bruggen, Coosje | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7524... | Go to resource |
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