Lost at Sea

Stormie Mills, Revok and local youths

Title: Lost at Sea

Artist/s: Stormie Mills, Revok and local youths

Year: 2008

Category: Urban Art Mural

Site: Rockingham Station

Location Details: Rockingham Station pedestrian access under Ennis Avenue

Description:

The RCCTS provides bus and pedestrian access under Ennis Avenue. The artwork is to the left of the main entrance when leaving the building. Buses operate direct services into Rockingham city centre and the foreshore area. As was the case with the footbridge, local youths joined with Stormie Mills and special US guest artist Revok to create this large piece of urban art running on two levels through the RCCTS.

Artist/s Statement:

Given Rockingham’s close proximity to the ocean and its strong seaside community, I saw waves as water mountains, moving through the ocean, symbolic of life’s constant ebb and flow. Water is such an incredibly under-rated force – waves being one of the few transfers of energy that is completed without any energy loss. Because Rockingham is an industrial town, I thought it was a good analogy … a quiet power often underestimated. The fish and the fisherman represent life in the ocean and the recreational fishing lifestyle that is synonymous with Rockingham. Again, composition alludes to most people seeing the fish and waves but few people will see the fisherman unless they catch the bus through the underpass, as if to live it is to understand.