Thanks for the comments, all. On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:56 -0500, "David J Brooks" <[email protected]> wrote: > He needs to eat something.
Being out in the sun too long will do that to you.... On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:32 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > And, well, maybe it's me, but the basis of the sculptures seems like a > weird thing to do. Agreed, but in my experience weirdness is no barrier to artistic expression. :-)> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:30 -0800, "Rick Womer" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. See my reply to Marnie above... To be fair, though, when you see these sculptures for real, the whole thing looks so right. Putting them out on a salt lake in the middle of nowhere requires a certain degree of lateral thought, but somehow it really works. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > > --- 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 > > > > > > > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- 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.
