ELLIS KNIGHTINGALE

Artist Sculptor Woodworker

Destiny

This piece is symbolic of both the physical and non-physical world. Form and shadow.

Inspired by sea mammals. The shadows cast by the driftwood & tags create beautiful & sometimes ominous shapes.

The movement of the mobile also gives the piece a sense of aliveness.

In Norse Mythology, the first humans were formed out of two pieces of driftwood. We are born into destiny.

Everything returns to the source in the end. The hanging tags symbolize this return.

Look closely at the tags, but be careful don’t get caught on the fish hooks.

The driftwood is from a beach in St. Flavie Quebec, along the St. Lawrence River in the Gaspe Region.

The tags were aged to appear weathered and leathery.