World Urban Art

First Sculpture in Snow Yes, this is very temporary urban art – a snow / ice sculpture of a horse. Morgan usually draws, sketches and paints – so sculpture is a new art form to him. And you cannot be more temporary than creating in snow and ice.
As a youngster (school boy), he created sand sculptures on the vast 90 mile beach in the North of New Zealand. These were always huge works for a youngster and his creations were incredible. One day we hope we will have some photos of these early works

From New Zealand Tourism Guide About New Zealand

The famous Moeraki boulders lie scattered along a beach 40 kilometres south of Oamaru. According to Maori legend, the boulders are gourds washed from the great voyaging canoe Araiteuru when it was wrecked upon landfall in New Zealand some 1000 years ago.

These perfectly spherical rocks are calcium and carbonate-based rocks from the seabed, formed about 60 million years ago. The massive marbles now sit along the tide line; some are well concealed, others more exposed.

The soft mudstone containing the boulders was raised from the seabed about 15 million years ago and changing sea levels are exposing the erosion resistant boulders.

Scientists explain the boulders as septarian concretions formed about 65 million years ago. Crystallization of calcium and carbonates around charged particles in muddy undersea sediments gradually formed the boulders in a process taking as long as four million years. The soft mudstone containing the boulders was raised from the seabed around 15 million years ago and sea erosion is exposing the erosion-resistant boulders.

So we have discovered Natural Spherical Forms

In the Beginning there was a cold tree in Haarlem

Check this link

And the tree still has its scarf – nearly 6 weeks later.

An email regarding Altered Environments, Knit Art Graffiti, Land Art, Guerilla Art, Yarn Bombing, Installation Fibre Art, arrived in my inbox. I knew nothing of those things.

Well that is not entirely true, I had been watching from a very safe distance. Now I have jumped in boots and all – and I so want to do more of this exciting stuff.

Some of the challenge is the fact my first piece was spherical – and not just because it was in a public space. Creating a textile piece using knitting as the medium is not so easy for a large solid concrete round ball. A SAGGY piece is not art or attractive (unless you create it so), so this has been a huge learning curve for me. I am used to pieces for the body, and some flat rectangular work (scarves and wall hangings). Circular knitting – I do all the time, but spherical – that is so different.

So I hope you come along on my journey and that you do not mind my side trips into other Urban art forms.