Christo - always controversial and one of the first installation artists to achieve worldwide recognition, appears to have gone back to his roots and created one of his trademark 'wrapped' works of art in the harbour's lorry park area. The currently untitled work is an example of wrapping manmade artifacts insitu - an early example of Christo's work is featured on his official website here - perhaps the harbour will use the Fish Festival as an opportuntiy to auction off such a masterpiece to help with the harbour finances.
Thursday, 27 August 2009
It's a wrap!
Christo - always controversial and one of the first installation artists to achieve worldwide recognition, appears to have gone back to his roots and created one of his trademark 'wrapped' works of art in the harbour's lorry park area. The currently untitled work is an example of wrapping manmade artifacts insitu - an early example of Christo's work is featured on his official website here - perhaps the harbour will use the Fish Festival as an opportuntiy to auction off such a masterpiece to help with the harbour finances.
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Do Mr M and co believe that by covering this disgusting eyesore it will go away. Would it not be a better idea to keep the Harbour tidy for 12 months of the year, after all they do receive wages for that period and not just the 4-5 days witnessed preceding the Fish Festival!.
There is more to this - is it also not encumbent on those that use the harbour to dispose of any rubbish/waste/etc rather than leave it for the harbour staff to dispose of? Given that the harbour relies largely on 2.5% landing dues and yet freely provides many basic services that other UK ports of similar status would attract a charge - eg fresh water, electricity, berthing services, pumping out etc etc - check out the charges levied by Arbroath (considerably smaller) in Scotland http://www.angus.gov.uk/atoz/pdfs/harbourcharges.pdf
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