By Jim Field
I spent last Sunday and the early part of this week in Fort Lauderdale, attending the national conference of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), which is made up of heart and chest surgeons (the guys, a few women among them, who cut and typically save you). Located right in front of the huge conference center is the pool and billfish sculpture shown above, First of all, the camera (actually Blackberry) shot does it no justice--it's size and scale are vast and impressive. It depicts the sailfish's leap into air in three distinct parts, or freeze-frame motions. The first, closest to the camera, shows the dorsal fin breaking the plain of the water. The second, at center, reveals the great fish's head and back arching upward. And finally, in the third presentation, the sailfish is fully vertical, nearly its entire body airborne.
If you stand back looking at the entire thing, and sweep your eyes from right to left across the water, you get a real sense of movement, and motion, and power, and speed, and weight, and elegance. What a creature! The artist who created this work definitely produced a masterpiece.
Final Note: the Blackberry produces an awesome quality picture, doesn't it? It's definitely a must-have feature.
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