I love your choice and analysis of Geoffrey C. Smith’s sculpture of a sailfish in Stuart, Florida. But is the sculpture only representative of Stuart? Or could it represent something more? In other words I think that this statue represents not only Stuart perfectly but Florida as a whole. The full round three-dimensional sculpture represents Florida at each angle. It is not only a sculpture that defines Stuart but Florida as a whole. The sailfish in the statue is jumping toward the sky, toward the sun which defines us as the “Sunshine State”. The “sail” that is on back is curved like it is sailing into the air and through the wind. And the fountain sounding the statue represents how we are, as a peninsula, nearly completely surrounded by water.
