Atrium artwork for Essex & Suffolk Water offices near Hanningfield Reservoir.

Water is represented within this sculpture at both a massive and minute scale.  H₂O – water – is depicted at a molecular scale as one large, clear Oxygen atom joined with two smaller polished Hydrogen atoms.

This is water at it’s essential level.  As this arrangement is repeated in the sculpture, it alludes to the transition of water molecules in the grand scale of the water cycle. 

Ice melts, water flows, evaporates and precipitates.  The sculpture can be read both upwards and downwards to reflect this ongoing cycle.  

The clear spheres contain smaller sculptures that represent the variety of life in and around Hanningfield reservoir.

Arranged in the spiral form of DNA strands, the spheres emphasise the message:  Water is life.