The world where I live — sculpture
Art comes in many guises. One of those guises is the Baxter dog kennel maker’s giant wooden dog. I don’t know, it doesn’t seem high art or accessible public art, but, um, seems representative of the large art movement. We don’t have a giant prawn or big banana or oversized sheep in our locality, so the large wooden dog it is.
I’m not apologising for the poor photo quality as I almost got the car stuck in a culvert on a busy road and I don’t know how many locals/friends/relatives saw me hanging out of the car while trying to photograph the large wooden dog. I’ll suffer for my work but I refuse to incur ongoing humiliation.
Crank-o-meter: woof?
January 29th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
does the big dog have a name?
We’ve got nothing ‘big’ here unless you count the big meditterranean supermarket that has big loads of pasta!
Oh and Franco Cozzo with his big bad taste!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
It doesn’t seem to have a name :-(. It’s also not the tourist icon I think it should be; perhaps the location on a fast, busy, single-lane road makes it hard for impressed visitors to stop and admire.
You could have the Giant Tortellini atop the roof of the Meditteranean supermarket! Or a giant Franco Cozzo — I think he was only Norta Malben and Footascray???
January 31st, 2010 at 6:35 pm
oh he’s in Brunsweek too, I love catching the tram outside his shop, I look inside and shudder at the kitsch contained within!!
January 31st, 2010 at 7:03 pm
I’m embarrased that I had forgotten the Franco Cozzo ads when the ‘Anda Brunswick’ tacked on the end! I know it’s all white and gold and ornate kitsch, but I’ve been in a few Harvey Norman stores with exactly the same style. Someone must be buying it!