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Strange Creatures
22/02/2012 09:08 pmFor the first time in many moons, the serpent visited the annual Orientation Day feast of freebies at the local university. Used to invariably end up with shifts finishing at 3pm on Wednesdays in February meaning that all the events would be over by then. Then sort of lost track and always managed to turn up a week late. Finally made it today. Such an overdose of nostalgia. It would have been nice to return to the lair, scrub the scales and remove all traces of work but by then most of it would be all over. So the best that could be done was a change of clothes. Could not possibly be caught out on the street wearing the pale green rags of house elf enslavement with that appalling logo that gets larger with each new edition of the uniform
( The Old Lurking Grounds and some gorgeous critters )
The unexpected highlight of the day was the seriously strange sculpture exhibition held there as part of the annual arts festival.
The promo poster had an image of what looked like a spider’s web but it was like putting up pictures of bottles of Rawsons Retreat reds and then offering Grange Hermitage on arrival
The artist is a Korean called U Ram Choe. He gives most of his sculptures obscure and intriguing Latin names and they are the sort of critters who would feel right at home in Professor Sprout’s Greenhouse 3 or Hagrid’s “Care of Magical Creatures’ classes
They are all made of metal and assorted electronic bits but their movement makes them look seriously lifelike.
From the strange salamander like slinking things found in subways to the rampaging critters evolved from jet propellors and looking like a cross between a shark and giant squid (often to be found lurking in the environs of abandoned aircraft hangars) to the chandeliers that flutter like butterflies and bats, the wheels within wheels clockwork Chakra 2 and the spooky venus fly trap like flowers, the whole show was spooky and hypnotic.
The metalwork was curly and swirly with lots of spirals and filigree. It was seriously elegant and exquisite and like steampunk on steroids
Was so so glad to have taken a peek. Will be visiting a few more times before it finishes on Friday 2nd March and hopefully feeling rather more artistic and inspired. Will definitely be bringing along that infernal phone camera and a note book to do lots of squiggles
Managed to snaffle two very stunning A4 brochures with gorgeous detailed colour photographs of some of the most amazing creations. Well worth not one but two gold coin donations
Was there nearly 90 minutes which was much much longer than expected. Already looking forward to the next visit. Must go googling this guy. If he was from the USA he probably would be a household name. Such a seamless marriage between art and technology has to be seen to be believed. His creations make Patricia Piccinini’s mutant monster sculptures look positively zombielike in comparison. Movement is everything.
Tomorrow will be more culture vulture stuff including a peek at the writers’ festival and an attempt to get tickets for Henry V which looks most promising indeed
But tonight will be just a bit of a catch up on squiggling and snippets in Cyberia
( The Old Lurking Grounds and some gorgeous critters )
The unexpected highlight of the day was the seriously strange sculpture exhibition held there as part of the annual arts festival.
The promo poster had an image of what looked like a spider’s web but it was like putting up pictures of bottles of Rawsons Retreat reds and then offering Grange Hermitage on arrival
The artist is a Korean called U Ram Choe. He gives most of his sculptures obscure and intriguing Latin names and they are the sort of critters who would feel right at home in Professor Sprout’s Greenhouse 3 or Hagrid’s “Care of Magical Creatures’ classes
They are all made of metal and assorted electronic bits but their movement makes them look seriously lifelike.
From the strange salamander like slinking things found in subways to the rampaging critters evolved from jet propellors and looking like a cross between a shark and giant squid (often to be found lurking in the environs of abandoned aircraft hangars) to the chandeliers that flutter like butterflies and bats, the wheels within wheels clockwork Chakra 2 and the spooky venus fly trap like flowers, the whole show was spooky and hypnotic.
The metalwork was curly and swirly with lots of spirals and filigree. It was seriously elegant and exquisite and like steampunk on steroids
Was so so glad to have taken a peek. Will be visiting a few more times before it finishes on Friday 2nd March and hopefully feeling rather more artistic and inspired. Will definitely be bringing along that infernal phone camera and a note book to do lots of squiggles
Managed to snaffle two very stunning A4 brochures with gorgeous detailed colour photographs of some of the most amazing creations. Well worth not one but two gold coin donations
Was there nearly 90 minutes which was much much longer than expected. Already looking forward to the next visit. Must go googling this guy. If he was from the USA he probably would be a household name. Such a seamless marriage between art and technology has to be seen to be believed. His creations make Patricia Piccinini’s mutant monster sculptures look positively zombielike in comparison. Movement is everything.
Tomorrow will be more culture vulture stuff including a peek at the writers’ festival and an attempt to get tickets for Henry V which looks most promising indeed
But tonight will be just a bit of a catch up on squiggling and snippets in Cyberia
