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.

How to make a horse from plastic junk

Sayaka Ganz makes dynamic animal sculptures from plastic junk.
Starcross History's entry for the 2018 for Trail Recycled Art in the Landscape at Teignmouth is to include a horse. We've sent a letter to the parents at Starcross Primary School, to ask them to start to save their disguarded plastic.
This video shows how Sayaka Ganz made her galloping black horse.

DATE AND TIME TO BE RE-ARRANGED Mosaic Mayhem

The next meet of Starcross History will be on

Wednesday 14th February, (which is also Ash Wednesday AND Valentine's Day) at 7:30pm in St Paul's Church.

DATE AND TIME TO BE RE-ARRANGED

There is no charge for membership and there is no charge for admission, but we need to cover expenses, so PLEASE BRING A RAFFLE PRIZE. 

Points on the Starcross History Trail will be marked with mosaics, so this meet will have a mosaic workshop, to get people interested in the project, and to show them how easy it is to make a weatherproof mosaic.
The workshop will be led by Alma Harding and Joanne Bickel. Materials including tiles and bottlecaps will be used on a wood base.

Ideas for the points on the history trail need to be followed up with a site visit, and permission sought to site a relevant mosaic in a prominent place.

If you have your own idea for a Starcross History mosaic, please get in touch so that we can tell you what materials you'll need to bring, and save a table for you. Outdoor mosaics can be on wood bases, on paving slabs or plantpots.

We'll also look at horse sculpture from plastic rubbish. Redundant Christmas lights make great manes and tails!

Our this year's exhibit on the Teignmouth Recycled Art in the Landscape sculpture trail will include this mosaic of a forge. The tiles need grouting, and the wood needs to be waterproofed with yacht varnish.

Starcross History's whole TRAIL exhibit will be titled Horse and we will add as many horse sculptures as we can. The sculptures will be made from plastics that are not usually recycled, and that will end up in landfill. Ideas for sculpting horses from rubbish from the internet: Sayaka Kajita Ganz uses all sorts of found plastic to make incredibly graceful horses

Sayaka Kajita Ganz uses all sorts of found plastic to make incredibly graceful horses

Coathanger Horse 2014 by Miriam Amery-Gale

Miriam Amery-Gale made her marvellous Coathanger Horse, in 2014.


This meet will also be the AGM. Maybe someone else will volunteer to be the chair, treasurer, secretary, projects manager, publicity officer, co-ordinater for schools, or chief researcher? Copies of the constitution will be available, and suggested amendments voted on. The chair will read the report about what Starcross History has achieved since its last AGM, and what its plans are.