G'day all This is about as far removed from 'Sculptures by the Sea' as it's possible to get....
Dave Savage pesoed a photo from Lake Ballard in the Aus outback about a year ago and I knew then that this was a place I had to visit on my recent trip across to Western Australia. It required an extra 600 km of driving but I don't regret a single metre. Over 50 sculptures are scattered around the lake bed and, although they look like stick figures, each one was actually modelled on a resident of the small town of Menzies. Each resident stripped down to to the bare essentials and had a full body scan. Polystyrene patterns were prepared from the scans with one important modification - each person's horizontal dimensions were reduced by two thirds. The patterns were finally used in the casting of the stainless steel figures. Anyway - here's one of the sculptures. The small hill is called 'Snake Hill'. Given that the shape of the hill looks nothing like a snake, I can only assume that the name refers to to the hill's inhabitants - something I wasn't aware of before I climbed to the top.... http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/184660/Sculpture_in_the_Desert.html Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
