after cape towns last massive storm i went on my customary beach combing walk along muizenberg beach to cemetery. The storm and the surging tide had pushed a huge amount of debris onto the beach. exciting stuff - i could hardly contain myself - i say debris as it was definitely not the usual organic material im accustomed to - shells, driftwood, sea spoils.
bearing in mind i actually ended up walking 1km and in that 1km i found - 22 slip slops - none matching - 30 light bulbs - munged wetsuits - about 100 unused condoms still in their rappers - so im thinking theirs a crazy cult of people sacrificing wrapped condoms in the sea to prevent pregnancy. i kid you not -i found tekkies, tons of plastic rubbish , nothing to constitute the treasure i used to find. so i decided to sculpt a virus madusa chair in the dunes. it was a throne to all the crap that washed up during the storm. i had great fun dragging all the junk to my centralised location and sculpting the virus madusa chair. took me a good 5 hours. as humans we can collectively sit on this chair and marvel at our amazing ingenuity. we cut off one polluting element and 10 grow in its place. as a virus we sure accomplish our destructive task well - i took a photo but a drawing was easier to depict. i brought in seaweed elements to exagerate the effect. my drawing does not actually show the real amount of trash. i was subliminary still trying to make my creation look pretty.
