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Flight of Fancy is a truly poetic sculpture, a delicate and powerful ode to the threshold of adulthood. Joyce Carreira captures a young woman in a moment of pure, luminous grace. Her body is arched in a spontaneous dance, an instinctive declaration of an identity being formed. The large feathers she holds are not functional wings but, as the artist beautifully puts it, “emblems of imagination, transformation, and ascent.” They do not give her flight; they honour her desire to rise.
This work is a celebration of inner strength and self discovery. The dance grounds the figure to the earth, while the feathers speak to her spirit’s desire to expand. She exists in that magical space between fantasy and reality, embodying the courage it takes to dream and the quiet, private rituals of growing up. Carreira reminds us that freedom is not always about escape, but about presence, about choosing joy. Flight of Fancy is a sculpture of profound hope, capturing that sacred moment of possibility before life’s certainties take hold.
Artist: Joyce Carreira (SA 1972)
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