This year's entry on the Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape sculpture trail is The Starcross Mermaid
Monica found her head on the shores of the Exe Estuary today.
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| The Starcross Mermaid's head amongst the bladderwrack and rocks |
Teignbridge District Council has kindly donated one of her magnificent breasts. It's an orange plastic buoy, with a broken fixing. This is just one of the many thousands of such buoys which come adrift in the oceans and add to the massive rafts of rubbish in the centre of the 5 gyres
Our mermaid needs one more, but if a matching buoy can't be found for her second breast, it might be a good thing... because this larger than life mermaid will promote Breast Cancer Awareness, with or without both of her breasts.
Here's a photo of the first throwdown of The Starcross Mermaid.
Her body will be fashioned from trawlernet. Thankyou again Teignbridge. Her long fishtail will be covered in shiny silver scales (CDs) so she will need to sit on something fairly high; so that her fishtail can be displayed to maximum effect.
Her Mermaids' Braids will be made from the plastic net bags that often encase shopbought vegetables. These bags are super-colourful, but they will need decorating with jewellery.
So it's time to start saving all the net bags and jewellery you can PLEASE.
Each plait needs to be very secure, and 8 feet long please. Demo plaits will be displayed at Myrtle Cottage...
If you would help with this project, please get in touch
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