Flight of Fancy

• Artist: Joyce Carreira
• Artwork: Flight of Fancy
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• Medium: Bronze sculpture
• Size: H27 x W30 x D24cm
• Limited Edition of 15
• Usually cast per order, please enquire

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She moves with luminous grace—suspended between girlhood and womanhood, innocence and awakening. In “Flight of Fancy”, the sculpture captures a young woman mid-dance, arms outstretched, her body arched with joy and intention. Held in her hands are great, sweeping feathers—not wings, but emblems of imagination, transformation, and ascent. This is not flight in the literal sense. It is symbolic—a celebration of the first powerful moments when a young soul begins to sense her own freedom.‘’Flight of Fancy’’ is a Celebration of Becoming.

The sculpture is a poetic ode to the threshold between adolescence and adulthood. The subject is not yet defined by the weight of the world, but no longer untouched by it. Her dance is instinctive, spontaneous—a declaration of identity being formed in motion.The large feathers she carries are not anchored—they follow her. They do not give her flight, but honor her desire to rise. She is not escaping; she is expanding. This sculpture rejects cynicism. It embraces the vitality of dreaming, the importance of self-discovery, and the celebration of inner strength.

Feathers have long been symbols of ascension, spiritual growth, and lightness. In “Flight of Fancy”, they represent the potential each person carries—the unspoken power to redefine oneself, to move beyond limitation.Dance, by contrast, grounds her. Her feet touch earth, but only barely. She exists in the space between fantasy and reality—between what is and what could be.Together, the feathers and the dance suggest that freedom is not about departure. It’s about presence. About choosing joy, even in its fragility.The sculpture also speaks softly of femininity—not the kind imposed by society, but the one discovered through movement, risk, and self-trust. She is not performing. She is becoming.“Flight of Fancy” honours the private rituals of growing up—the secret dances behind closed doors, the quiet dreams whispered to the sky. It invites viewers to remember that first electric awareness of agency and possibility.

“Flight of Fancy” is a sculpture of hope. Of potential. Of the sacred moment before certainty, when life is still a question and the answer is allowed to be beautiful. It reminds us that flight is not always about leaving—it can be the courage to lift one’s spirit, fully present, and dare to dance.