Steve Paxton's photos with the keyword: Art.

The Big ball and chain

19 Jun 2024 17 18 272
The Big Ball & Chain was originally nestled in the sand at the beach for the 2015 Sculpture by the Sea exhibit in Cottesloe. These days it sits near the train station in a park. The creator, Norton Flavel (who also created the Big Hand in Armidale, NSW) wanted to pay homage to the first convicts who arrived by sea in shackles. I thought it looked just a bit more at home behind the fence like the convicts . you are looking at about 3 time normal human size.

The Big Rainbow

19 Jun 2024 7 4 153
The famous Fremantle ‘Containbow’ is made up of nine shipping containers and painted in rainbow colours to create the Big Rainbow Sea Container. It towers over us at 9 metres high, 19 metres long and weighing in at 66 tonnes. I was the uber driver for my wife today as her car had to be repaired. this morning this was a solid line of cars and semis both brides to get to north fremantle at a crawl. A truck hauling two sea containers like above rolled over blocking both lanes . traffic was reduced to a crawl 20min trip blew out to 1h 20m. I was able to come back early for the pick up to get these three displays. On my trip back from north Fremantle after dropping my wife at work there was a solid line of trucks for miles trying to get into North Fremantle container area.

The Big Dingo

19 Jun 2024 4 4 169
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Flour_sign The dingo logo was painted by artist Les Nash in 1940 for £40. According to his daughter Mona Rankin it took her father about a week to complete the logo. Nash first sketched the dingo onto graph paper and then used the gridded panels on the silo to guide his large-scale transfer of the design onto the silo itself. It is about five and a half storeys high. It was painted over during World War II, but its outlines were still faintly visible. Refugees and migrants coming to Fremantle saw the sign, and it remains a useful reference point for boaters and anglers. It was mostly re-painted in March 2001. In 2010 the flour mill was renovated, and the dingo now gets re-painted every month. Just in case you thought it was a miss print 5 1/2 stories high this is the side view its far from small.