Inflorescence, a juxtaposition of car culture iconography and the exquisiteness of Australian botany and native flora. An anachronistic and curious monument materializes, a hyper-collage of our manufacturing world with the sublime natural environment.

Bird & Adams have metamorphosed colours, patterns and textures of the Waratah flower with motor vehicle semiotics and materials to create an esoteric symbolic dialogue of the synthetic and the ecological. With each drive-by, day and night, commuters will be excited to experience the multifaceted sculpture, one that offers numerous strangely familiar everyday, native and uncanny references. The artists have considered the scale, arrangement and orientation of forms & lighting of the sculpture to capture the car commuters’ viewpoints and imagination.

The top cylinder of Inflorescence will be visible from southbound EastLink freeway traffic appearing as hovering colorful disc and with lighting appear as a kaleidoscopic pattern in the night sky.

When designing ideas for the sculpture the artists considered the following:
> A grand pas de deux of monumental and beautiful monster truck wheels. 
> Esoteric choreography of a duet of monumental objects in apparent revolution. 
> The strangely familiar… intertwining symbolic references of the toe-bar, car trailer, monster truck tire, wheel alloys, kaleidoscope, wind-spinners… whilst embodying the materiality of a striking plant/ flower in full bloom.
> As a painterly expression of compositions in the manner of Australian landscape paintings of John Glover and Louis Buvelot.