Sustainable Coastlines Charity Ball – “Tofino Mist”

Tofino Mist (1.5m x 1m)

Tofino Mist represents a seemingly idyllic but illusory scene. Buildings are suspended, float on calm, untroubled water. However, they depend on the water for support and sustenance. Their existence is temporary and the apparent calm masks a sense of tension and unease. The buildings and people inhabiting them assume the tranquility will remain. A ferry speeds across the bay, plying its regular trade – oblivious to the gathering clouds as the natural world closes in. The idealised setting is, in reality, a reflection of the calm before the storm.

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About

Clive Elliott

I live and work in Auckland, New zealand. I am a serial dabbler in the arts, with an interest in writing, poetry, public speaking and painting. I’m a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and information technology issues. I regularly write on and lecture on the art of advocacy, both oral and written. An example is a webinar I gave in 2018 “Mastering Advocacy: Effective Written and Oral Advocacy and How to Maximise Both”. My goal as an artist is to try and capture a little piece of that magnificent natural beauty that exists around us and preserve it in a time capsule so others can ponder and experience the wonder, before it evaporates away into the endless sands of time. 

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