Sculpture by the sea....Bondi.

Well it meant 3 hours in a car but we arrived at Bondi feeling much better if not quite so worthy than when we finished the city2surf 3 months ago. We got our lunch courtesy of a Lonely Planet recommendation from a juice bar which went and got it's name by looking at Hairdressing salon names and how they can't resist an obvious pun. It was called "Sejuiced". The children resisted the offer of a chicken caesar wrap and went for "Maccers". (luckily we had some free vouchers!...so it wasn't so bad when we didn't have to pay for the stuff!)



The reason for our journey was not a day on the beach. We subscribe to the "Novocastrian view" that the beaches in Newcastle are just as good, but the cliff walk to the south is spectacular and with 100 sculptures waiting to be viewed by Tina's artistic eye it had to be worth a visit.
If anybody can see a link between this photo and a previous one do not tell Tina. This one was right at the start of the walk and ended up being Tina's favourite.



Now if you thought the beach was crowded. Look at the amount of people walking here.



Well we managed to fight back the crowds to get our photos. Jess was probably number 11 in line to sit in the bench next to "Birdman". What does he represent? "banal urban narrative, cultural tourism and elements of magic realism are all played out in this enigmatic bird/man figure. Superhero? visionary? Or a guy dressed up to sell corporate products in a supermarket?"



Winner of our artistic "up your own backside" statement though was a pair of copper legs of which the artist said "My sculpture reflects the utilisation of western aesthetic constructional principles and geometrical balance concepts. Inspired by the quintessential philosophy of Yin and Yang."
"No it doesn't! It's just legs!"

Anyway artistic technobabble aside here were our favourites. Anyone familiar with Tina's artwork will know why she liked this one.



I was being more geometric. No prizes for guessing what this one was called.




In case you had not sussed it's the same 4 blocks from differing angles.

Gravity defying large gentleman.




and a load of black and red bamboo canes; which were enjoyed by the children because they did not have large "DO NOT TOUCH" signs next to them



They also liked the state of the art dog kennels.



One and a half hours later we were at Tamarama beach, greeted by "Unveiled" which depicts the vulnerability of a woman's beauty in its many aspects.


The last smattering of collections were on the beach itself. Fantastic but it added up to about 1/2 million dollars worth of artwork sitting on the beach. It either needs some clever security or Australia is an obscenely trustworthy nation. Jess and Alex didn't care they just enjoyed running inside the shell thingy.



Our final favourite entitled "Hot with the chance of a late storm" is retailing at $22,000 and comes complete with a strained rendition of Greensleeves.