33) Art on the Beach

Down Currumbin way, just south of us, there is an annual sculpture show along the Esplanade. These are pretty major pieces, along the grassy park, some out on the dunes that make for an amazing 10 day display. (Above the juxtaposition of a 16th century gold frame composing the ultra modern soaring verticality of Surfers Paradise (and Nancy!) Art as participatory action - you chose the angle, what is framed, what is *in* the frame! Enjoy the pictures and quotes from the artists describing their work.



Strange beastliness live in these parts! "A personified tree image as a reminder to all of the living earth...associating animated conscious beings with the seemingly inanimate and unnoticed life of trees...[as an] image that will envoke new perspective, understanding and respect for our sacred living earth."



















All recycled materials!!































Be sure to click on this picture - I couldn't process it to make it less fuzzy - the big version is much clearer!)











Monte Lupo Soldier Crabs have evolved to fit their surroundings. Their Shells exhibit the cityscapes that are moving into the crabs environment - be afraid, be very afraid! (see closeup below)










Nancy and the running chicks!

"We take this time of life for granted, a young supple body, boundless energy, enjoyment from just being alive, not a care in the world."













"The struggle to have the right look, the perfect body and all the accessories required to complete the look."



















Dirk in the grips of "Scooter - the Surfer Dog" "From Universal spirtual planes primordial beings have been visitors... some of these I have befriended... they fight battles on my behalf ever present and watching over me. Scooter is the manifestation of one such visitation when I was deeply slotted in a tube at Lennox point a few years ago"

I think Scooter needs to visit Boulder... he only costs $5K























A hood ornament on an old rusty truck - lots of cool metal birds and odd bits and pieces













































"Greed and fear feed our unhappiness! Constant craving biggest car, biggest television, biggest house, biggest egos. Creating: endless wars, pollution, water shortage, climate change, environmental destruction, overpopulation...."















Creature from the deepest dark of the Coral Sea!








"Waiting and watching the unfolding of life, hordes of beings have been here before, before even the invention of our 'time'. And will be after we are gone..."