7 June 2006

Images of Canberra - Civic public art walking tour Episode 38, SEQVANAE

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On Saturday 08-APR-06 we did the Civic Public Art Walking Tour and lived to tell the tale.

And so, I present to you item # 38, SEQVANAE, by Michael Kitching. It’s on Alinga Street.

SEQVANAE - by Michael Kitching

The guide says:

This is a tribute to Seqvanae, a Roman
goddess of healing. The artwork is rich with
symbolic references to health and medicine.
The letters represent an eye test chart but,
instead of random lettering, the artist has
used the first letters in the names of family
members, including their pets.

It may just be a mishmash of medical symbology, but I like it, and it’s in a good location in front of the ACT Health offices.

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It’s not moved, in a building site, locked up or broken, so that alone seems to put it in the tour highlights.

If it represents his unborn children, is that why the anti-abortionists kneel there and pray with their awful awful photos on a Friday morning?

Apparently it represents the artist’s unborn children.

Quite the monument to his own family he managed to get the ACT to shell out for.

“The letters represent an eye test chart but,
instead of random lettering, the artist has
used the first letters in the names of family
members, including their pets”
-and the “X”? Could be Xerxes, I suppose.

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