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MERIT AWARDS
Merit award winner
HENRICO
PAUL
GREYLING
PRETORIA
Through here a flower passed is a steel sculpture that
invites a physical interaction from the viewer. The artwork
draws from the dimensions of an archway that led to a
familiar room at my grandparent’s house. The archway is a
symbol of life and death, having been the passage through
which many family members have moved, of whom my
grandmother is the only one yet to return, and evidently,
she never will.
By constructing the archway from pieces of rusted metal,
the passage of time is reinforced through the shifting
colours caused by the rust. But at the same time, the
different patterns and colours caused by the rust and the
process of fixing different-sized steel patches together
to form the whole create a parallel with the patches of
material that my grandmother often used to fix my or
my brother’s clothes. Greyling invites the viewer to walk
through the archway, allowing the act of movement to
become a part of the artwork; a reminder of being alive.
Through here a flower passed
Steel
220 cm x 115 cm x 20 cm
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