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The Sea

            Afloat
Materials/Size: Bronze, 250cm diameter
Location: Groyne on seafront, near to the Palace Pier
Artist: Hamish Black
Date: 1998
'Afloat' is a huge circular donut shaped globe cast in bronze. Situated at the seaward end of the groyne, its centre at eye level allows a view of our world through the sculpture. 

The donut or torus (a shape that has a continuous surface with a hole in it) has been posed as a possible model by scientists of how our universe may look. The sculpture was generated by taking a world globe and pressing the south and north poles together to form a torus. Now placed on its side the lines of longitude radiate from the central hole, linking the sea and sky. Across its surface are the shrunken shapes of the major continents, adrift like dark shadows.

This much photographed sculpture has also become a meeting point and has even been the site of marriage proposals.
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Brighton / The Lanes (show map)

Taken on: June 6, 2014

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Camera: Sony DSC-RX100M2, f/7.1, 1/800 sec, 24.1mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-RX100M2
Lens:	Sony 28-100mm F1.8-4.9
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	24.1mm
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	-0.7 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Aperture 3.5.1
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