MESSAGE SCULPTURE

The ABC News home page features a sidebar link to Articulate, its arts blog. Today Emma Rogers posted photos of sculptures from this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition (Bondi, 3-20 November) that caught her eye. Rather than leave it to viewers to find meaning in the two works below, Ms Rogers felt obliged to elaborate:

Peter Adams eases out from underneath A Star Bangled Spanner after installing it on a cliff near Bondi Beach. Adams says his artwork, made of timber, fibreglass, resin, steel and wood, represents the United States' meddling in world affairs, causing unrest to continue, like a 'spanner in the works'.

A jogger does push ups on a rock in front of Refuge, by New Zealand-born Denise Hume, which, the photo notes tell me, a response to the refugee situation in Australia.

The Sculpture by the Sea home page also includes photos with titles – from the 2004 exhibition – but omits the political commentary.

That's our ABC.
Update: Many thanks to Tim Blair for the link. To go to latest post, click here.

Update II: For those who aren't aware, my original post was picked up by Tim Blair, who took the captions provided with the photos and expanded on them. Lefty Phil Gomes at Lavatory Rodeo observes:

Hard to believe I know, I was stunned as well…..really, but the evidence is there, Tim Blair doesn't get art.

Yeah well, there's the evidence, Phil's just your typical humourless lefty.