The guy has clearly spent too much time in the sun. Well, both the artist =and= the subject have spent too much time in the sun.
It's a really good, nicely exposed, well-composed photo, though. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 11/30/09, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
