Designer: Akio Makigawa
Year: 1994
Bluestone, white marble, bronze and stainless-steel
Time and Tide was commisioned by the City of Melbourne throught its Percent for Art Program. Like many of Makigawa's works, this sculpture is monumental is scale. It comprises horizontal and vertical elements, which extend some 20 metres over its Town Hall Plaze site. Fibre optics are embedded in the concrete and the light they emmit creates a different mood night and day. The individual elements of Time and Tide loosely represent:
Year: 1994
Bluestone, white marble, bronze and stainless-steel
Time and Tide was commisioned by the City of Melbourne throught its Percent for Art Program. Like many of Makigawa's works, this sculpture is monumental is scale. It comprises horizontal and vertical elements, which extend some 20 metres over its Town Hall Plaze site. Fibre optics are embedded in the concrete and the light they emmit creates a different mood night and day. The individual elements of Time and Tide loosely represent:
- a tree - signifying grouth, knowledge and the land
- a flame - signifying rebirth and trancendence
- and a shell - signifying the ocean
