The iceberg floating on the sea often only has a small tip, but it is enough to make people ignore the huge volume under the sea. Therefore, people often use the tip of the iceberg to metaphorize that what is exposed is only a small part of the whole picture. Ben Young from New Zealand uses his sculptures to help everyone see all the corners of the iceberg at once.
Ben Young uses hand-cut pieces of glass to simulate a clear underwater world, with undulating terrain made of concrete, as well as metal divers, lighthouses or sailboats on the water, freezing time and space in that moment.
Young’s starting point is naturally not to help everyone teach geography lessons, but to inject his care and respect for nature into his works. For example, in his latest work, Sentiments of the Sublime, Young uses nostalgia and collective perspective, exploring the relationship between humans and nature.
The swimmers jumping into the water, the sailing boats sailing on the sea, or the coconut trees on the sandbanks, or the lighthouses guiding the direction, these subjects that cannot be ignored in the human world often make people forget about the vast ocean world. How small they are in comparison, and human beings' self-righteousness, endless development and destruction, isn't it also a mentality that only cares about the beauty in front of them, but does not see the tip of the iceberg in the future?
