Wall-mounted sculpture, acrylic composite and flocking. A cross-section of rocks and sediment, 'Blue Birds II' resembles an educational geographical model of the White Cliffs of Dover. To wartime soldiers returning from France, the cliffs were emblems of home, and by fixing her sculpture to the wall, Kovats literally recreates that view. In the 1940s Vera Lynn's song "(There'll be blue birds over) The White Cliffs of Dover" epitomised the faith and hope of wartime Britain. Kovats' work reinforces the national identity, history and nostalgia deeply encoded in the geology of the Cliffs.
