Sculptures by the Sea 2019

My favourites are, in no particular order, below;

This must have taken someone such a lot of effort to get right, the leaf rotates around a horizontal axis while the stem pivots around a vertical axis at ground level. Powered by the wind, of course. There was a sea breeze and yes, the leaf spun like a drunken sailor while the whole thing turned in and out the wind - may have had springs inside . .. who knows but it worked well.

The plane men, we have seen this artist's work before - Applecross bought the white dogs and put them near the river east of Point Walter - we pass them on our river runs. All have the same number of horizontal planes but the vertical planes increase from the 5 on the right to over 35 on the left . . . a nice evolution of detail . . .

Just some wrappers of chewing gum . . .

Some lovely crab claws in rusted steel . . . .

More on the theme of texture and colour . . . .

Even stainless steel . . .

Almost plastic . . .

And lots of rusty steel . . . .

A barrel/bulkhead/tank/submarine thingy that is breeding . . . ?

The offspring are coloured green and orange, have wings and attached to mother, seaweedlike, with umbilical cords;

And there were these piles of shells;

And where was Suzanna?

This piece, the colouring and the evolution/metamorphise of one shape (tree trunks) to another (machined cogs) over a number of pieces reminded me of a sculture I came across 30 years ago at the NSW Art Gallery. A naked crosslegged mother suckling her baby morphs into a 3 eye piece microscope in 5 pieces. It was very well done.