Although I don’t do much of it myself, I am always impressed and inspired by images or sculptures made solely from cutting and folding paper.
Check out some of the beauties!
by Peter Callesen, Denmark
Kako Ueda, New York
Heather Moore, Cape Town
Andreas Kocks, Germany
Hina Aoyama, Japan
Mia Pearlman, NYC
Those paper doll chains don’t seem very impressive anymore, do they?
The Sea Point Pavilion has been graced with a wonderful new addition by artist, Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe. It is called “Walking the Road” and has been placed along the pavilion walkway temporarily until June 2011.
Marieke says, “The Little Girl in my fable-like interpretation thus represents a young South African democracy and the Dragonfly visualises a dream of freedom, equality and hope that we as a nation persue.
On a personal level, it is also a reminder to each of us of the hope that we individually live for and of the dreams that mark our lives, our own story.”
Well done and thank you to Marieke who pioneered her public art project and erected it at her own cost, hopefully this step will encourage the City to support more public art in Cape Town! It is a great addition to the already popular walk along the promenade.
If you’re in Cape Town I suggest you start off near the Sea Point Pavilion and read the story of the little girl and the dragon fly from sculpture 1 to 18 along the way. It’s a great way to spend a beautiful Winter afternoon with all the friendly joggers and dog-walkers.
For more information about this work, check out www.walkingtheroad.com
In 2006 artist, Jason de Caires Taylor created the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies and Cancun, Mexico.
He gets asked ‘Why would you put sculptures underwater?’ Well personally, I don’t see why not, is it not just a new viewing platform, a gallery with a much larger range of distance and angles to view from? This is one thing that could convince me to dig through my cupboards to pull out my old PADI certification and dive again. I mean, fish and coral are beautiful and all, but this to me is quite magical and mysterious.
It is also part of the process for coral and algae to use these sculptures as artificial reefs and part of their beauty is their transformation by nature over time.
The Lost Correspondent
One of my favourites is “Man on Fire’ – takes the ‘Burning Man’ concept to a whole other level. Uh, that would be, below sea level… *cough* ‘The cement figure has 75 holes planted with live cuttings of fire coral (Millepora alcicorni). This is a fast growing marine organism, yellow, orange and brown in colour which emits a painful stinging sensation when touched, thus reflecting its name and the title of the sculpture. It is anticipated that over time the figure will appear to be on fire underwater.’
Man on Fire
Many of the figures are casts of the local community, those that volunteer to be immortalised. Also, this whole project was funded by Jason himself, who sold his house to realise this dream. Check out this haunting video on YouTube of the sculptures in Grenada.
http://www.underwatersculpture.com for more info.
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