We spent my birthday at Bondi looking at the artworks at Sculpture by the Sea. This annual event usually brings a quirky mix of conventional sculptural shapes and oddball installations.
There were lots of mirrored things with interesting reflections, a bizarre cresting wave made from thousand of naked Barbie dolls and some spray-and-wipe bottles you could interact with – by spraying! We walked the length
Squirty bottles at Tamarama.
of the installations along the cliff path that runs from Bondi to Tamarama. Then we walked back. There were lots of people doing the same thing – even though it was midweek. It gets really crowded at the weekend.
There were mysterious whale sounds coming from somewhere on the cliff but it wasn’t a whale, it was a sound sculpture (as opposed to an unsound sculpture?).
The earlier gloomy weather had cleared to a beautiful fine day – Bondi and the beaches looked splendid. We found a little tapas bar – Vue – with a balcony terrace overlooking the beach. A lovely lunch followed, then we wandered home by bus and train. Ah, Sydney, what a great place!
Strange reflections of strange people.
