This installation was made from locally harvested willow and 70,000 up-cycled plastic bottles, it features life-sized whales; installed at Millennium Square in Bristol, England.
This work, by an artistic group who go by Cod Steaks, was a major influence for this project, it inspired us to go larger than we were first planning in our initial designs.
We found this work inspiring, it is a very strong message they are portraying. Just like our own project, they wanted to make a statement about a subject that most of society brush aside, and have done so in a way that people cannot ignore. Cod steaks have produced something of impressive scale and visually interesting.
There is a video on the making of the Bristol Whales.
Here are links to the blog that Cod Steaks created for this project: http://bristolwhales.tumblr.com/ and also to beautiful-lands who wrote about it on their website
Reference:
Cod Steaks. “The Making of the Bristol Whales.” YouTube. July 30, 2015. Accessed May 13, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sKgXfPcd1M.
Cod Steaks. THE BRISTOL WHALES (blog). 2015. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://bristolwhales.tumblr.com/.
Beautiful-lands.com. “Whale Sculpture On Display In Bristol, UK.” Beautiful Lands. Last modified July 17, 2015. http://beautiful-lands.com/posts/whale-sculptures-on-display-in-bristol-uk#.VzU8O3q71_k.
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