Brown Sign Cyclist

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The little stainless steel sculpture 60 cm x 60cm is a conglomeration of imagery used in the brown signs seen on sign posts on roads and motorways and was made in 2004.
The image is of a cyclist jumping off a rippling wave with a paddle; no hands and airborne. A positive take on the phrase ‘up the creek without a paddle’; here the cyclist is paddling like crazy in a state of equilibrium.

It was made after the giant Cricket Stumps at the Rose Bowl and the Locomotive emerging from the wall of the Railway arms in Alton. Both these pieces made me wonder if I was becoming a maker of brown signs! I would like to make some more one day. Perhaps it is a maquette for some larger pieces.