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 up onto the beach. Exciting stuff - I could hardly contain myself - I say debris as it was definitely not the usual organic material I'm accustomed to sifting through - shells, driftwood, sea spoils. My sifting through process is peek cap just above the eyes to limit the overall spectrum of vision - so i can concentrate on a manageable area of space. And i walk not to quickly but not to slowly. The area i walk on the beach is isolated and has become a hotspot for thugs. This has benefits as its not often traversed by fellow combers. However even the pick handle i carry is no match for these persistent scavengers of all that is honorable and good.
The beach washed up debris on this day was different and bearing in mind i 0=only actually ended up walking 1km and in that 1km i found - 22 slip slops - none matching - 30 light bulbs - munged up wetsuits - about 100 unused condoms still in their rappers - So I'm thinking theirs a crazy cult of people sacrificing wrapped condoms in the sea to prevent pregnancy, not far fetched where i live. I kid you not -i found tekkies, tons of plastic rubbish , nothing to constitute the organic shell treasure I'm used to finding. So i decided to sculpt a virus madusa chair in the dunes. It was a throne to all the human made crap that washed up during the storm. I had great fun dragging all the junk to my centralized location and sculpting the virus madusa chair. Took me a good 5 hours to sculpt this throne to man the king beach defiler. As humans we can collectively sit on this chair and marvel at our incredibly amazing ingenuity. We cut off one polluting element and 10 start to grow in its place. As a virus we sure accomplish our destructive task exceedingly well - I took a photo of my VMC but a drawing was easier to depict. I brought in seaweed elements to exaggerate the wild organic nature effect. My drawing does not actually show the real amount of trash i used to sculpt this ode to man. I was subliminary still trying to make my creation look pretty into the early evening - not a good idea to be on that part of the beach at that time - zombie hour..
I harvest old slip slops found on the beach when i go surfing. The surf spot is about 3km from my house. So i generally go down either in just my baggies or my wetsuit. i don't take anything because the pirate zombie brigade steal everything. So the harvested mismatched slip slops keep my feet protected and have no value. I don't care if they get stolen, infact its a result if they do get stolen, as it adds to the recyclable nature of the beach combing process. Plus a pirate wearing my harvested mismatched slip slops whilst commandeering a heist. Now that's pretty cool really. Put that character on the madusa virus thrown - with a 50 condom crown - he can be king of the pirates for the day. Oh that will be so crackalacking.
