I had a few days in Sydney last week, and made a point of visiting the National Maritime Museum, not to clamber on old ships or warships like everyone else, but to see Timothy Horn‘s jellyfish chandelier sculpture, Discomedusae (in the Jellyfish – nature inspires art exhibit). It’s quite amazing: about 2 metres across, based on drawings by Ernst Haeckel, and intricately made of amber-coloured polyurethane rubber:
To me it had a distinct feeling of decadence about it – intriguing, but I’m sure I would prefer the translucence of another of his jellyfish, Medusa.
