TRAIL horse diary

Work has started on the armature for Dobbin; the first TRAIL  horse. Old garden fence wire has been shaped into his head.

We've been on the lookout for pieces of CURVED or curvable plastic that won't be recycled. The assemblage for the sculpture includes plastic coathangers and Christmas lights that don't work.

The assemblage for the sculpture

  This  bit of mudguard picked up this morning could be Dobbin's muzzle

Dobbin's muzzle?

 Here's a Dobbin we made earlier

coathanger Dobbin

The children at Starcross Primary School will  help with the horse project later this year - when the pile of rubbish could start to resemble the incredible Sayaka Ganz gallopers.

Sayaka Ganz Galloping Horses

 Plans are afoot for the school to make manes and tails.

Plastic pieces could be wired to the armature, but a stronger structure would be if the plastic were to be welded together. There's information on the internet about how to weld plastic to plastic. We'll try with a heat gun. A candle can be used to alter the shape of a piece of plastic.

Plastic can be chopped up into small bits, and toasted in a  sandwich-toaster  to make flexible plastic board.

Plastic can be welded together using a soldering iron and plastic welding strips


We need lots of help and advice with this project please. The Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape sculpture trail runs from July until September.