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This 25-metre tall sculpture symbolises not only the fundamental principles of Olympism, but also the noblest of human endeavours. According to the artist "the giant ladder as a symbol of ascession has an obvious meaning in the context of sport and the Olympics-it suggests the desire to ascend, to scale heights, to climb up, to improve, to achieve to transcend one's limitations.
Each of the six rungs of The Attractor bear a word from the lowest rung upwards, sensus, imaginatio, ratio, intellectus, intelligentia, verbum.
- Sensus - perceive, feeling
- Imaginatio - imagination
- Ratio - account, reckoning, reason
- Intellectus - understand, realise, meaning
- Intelligentia - intelligence
- Verbum - word, proverb
The Attractor was inspired by an illustration in a book by seventeenth century metaphysicist Robert Fludd.
