The Long Wait
2023
Acrylic glass
180 x 90 cm
The Long Wait is an outdoor sculpture capturing a mundane sight: a patient parent with a restless child, waiting for the bus to take them home. This duo is not unique nor rare and does most likely not stand out from the other passengers waiting by that bus stop. Yet these two have been immortalized as a shiny, black shadow, overlooking, guarding, perhaps judging the passersby and the bus waiters. The difference between the sculpture and the human passengers is that the humans will be entering the bus, moving on to their destination and leaving the bus stop behind, hardly having noticed the shadow still waiting by the bus stand.
Installed on the Royal College of Art Battersea campus June 2023.
