And finally, we had Chalk: quite good for drawing with too
Story and photos by STAPH
You couldn’t miss the “Iceberg” stretched out over the pebbles on the Carlisle beach. The beach is covered with chalk chips, and the railings are festooned with signs to tell you that it’s part of Coastal Currents and “an art intervention by material”. Just a bit puzzling since the material icebergs are made of is frozen water. The signs also instruct us all about chalk, its geography, geology, chemical make-up and even its medicinal properties. They omit to mention that it’s good to draw with, which you would have thought would be the sort of thing an artist would know. But passing kids certainly know what it’s for, and in a stroke of interactive genius have made their own “intervention” along the paving: like sandcastles, subject to tides and dry weather of course.
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