Public installations have caught society’s attention for long, and a new sculpture at United States of America’s Fort Lauderdale is the newest addition to this ever-increasing list. Complete with an interplay of humans and greens, this new installation by Daniel Popper ticks all the right boxes for making heads turn. Wondering what’s so special? Scroll down below to know all about it. By Bayar Jain
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Situated outside Society Las Olas—an apartment building in Fort Lauderdale in Florida, USA—the eight-metres-tall artwork (roughly 26 feet) is a part of the apartment’s permanent installations, states the artist on his Instagram account. Built on-site along with master fabricators and industrial designers, Samuel Murgatroyd, and Rob Bernicch, this sculpture—titled Thrive—is crafted using glass fiber reinforced concrete. The mammoth artwork portrays a woman’s head and torso as she opens her chest to reveal a fern-covered tunnel for onlookers and passerby to walk through. A report by Sun Sentinel speculates that the sculpture is meant to depict the woman’s ‘inner gardens’; symbolise woman empowerment; and support research of cystic fibrosis, a form of lung disease.
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In an another Instagram post, Popper further reveals that the artwork weighs over 14 tons (approximately 12,700 kilograms) due to this sturdy foundation. However, this isn’t the first of Popper’s many gigantic creations. Earlier in 2011, the Cape Town-based artist produced a life-sized baobab tree lit by bicycle generators at the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) in Durban, South Africa. His work has also found a space at top international festivals such as Portugal’s Boom Festival, Arficaburn in South Africa, Australia’s Rainbow Serpent Festival, and more. The multidisciplinary artist’s official website states that he specialises in interactive art, public art , stage design, installation art, and interior design; and incorporates electronic music, LED lighting, and projection mapping is most of his designs.
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