Seven Steps to Heaven
Mary-Louise Browne
Type
- Sculpture
Medium
- Stone
Dimensions
- W800 x D8600mm
Mary-Louise Browne, ‘Seven Steps to Heaven’ (1999), Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Image: Maribeth Coleman, Public Art and Publicly Accessible Art collection, 2000. Courtesy Wellington City Libraries. CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0.
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Description
Mary-Louise Browne's art practice has explored the transformation of words and meaning within sculptural form. In this work Browne has adopted the title of 'Seven Steps to Heaven', a 1963 jazz composition by Victor Feldman and Miles Davis, to suggest something about our relationship to the sea and the sky. What we see and how we sat, how perhaps what we felt and what we said about our experience of landscape.
The work comprises seven inscribed stepping stones, sunken into the ground like pavers. They read: SEA, SEE, SET, SAT, SAD, SAY, SKY.
This work was recognised with a Creative Places Award 1999 for Local Authority Arts Innovation. Wellington City Council for Summer City 1998. Presented by Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
See also:
- Seven Steps to Heaven, Mary-Louise Brown, Maribeth Coleman, Public Art and Publicly Accessible Art in Wellington Collection (Wellington City Libraries Recollect)