A sniplet of the wonderful art of Theo Jansen and his creation of truly living kinetic sculptures.
"Since 1990 I have been occupied with creating new forms of life.
Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat.
Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives."
- Theo Jansen
strandbeest.com
I also posted about strandbeesten at Hofstijl, in Dutch:
http://www.hofstijl.nl/2010/06/19/strandbeest/
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