‘First the sun must hit the ocean so the ocean turns to clouds’
Santi Ikto is the first of two of Thomas Dambo’s artworks which form the Giants of Mandurah that we visited today. In total there are six artworks forming the collection.
I went to China in 2005, saw this in a very small city, had to buy it and take home. 24” tall, hand carried on airplane back. Now he’s guiding me in my basement study.
Bodhisena or Bodaisenna (704–760) was an Indian Buddhist scholar and monk known for traveling to Japan and China and establishing the Kegon school, the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.
Chimera is Susan Flavell's representation of the mythical monster of the Lycean civilisation. In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail, which ravaged the lands of the Lycean coast with her fiery breath until she was slain by the hero Bellerophon with the aid of the flying horse Pegasus.
The sculpture is on loan to the City of Fremantle from Kerry Harmanis until 2023.