Wednesday 2 December 2009

Due to secret public demand (i.e. nobody has asked for it but I know that secretly they want to see more) I am posting further examples of bear art.Again all these things were 'installed' on Tooting Common. 
The bags contain figures of Homepride man (which pic 1 shows was left on the floor of a glade)and Wallace of Aardman animation fame (which pic 2 shows was hung from
a tree). As we can see from the photos they were each holding a banner stating their predicament.



There is also an old Swiss bell telephone that was nailed to a tree (later smashed to pieces by some Swissophobe) and a Mickey Mouse novelty number, which was left at the side of a popular jogging path with a banner urging the 'citizens' to 'keep on rollin''.




The log with the mirror inserted was hung from a leaf shrouded branch where it twirled with the wind and flashed occasionally as the sun reflected off the mirror (so attracting the inquisitive mind, who later took it home with them).The wood bore the message 'there you are' because if you were looking into it you were,indeed, 'there'. 
I nailed several clocks to several trees - each of the clocks bore a different label identifying them - one was Todd, one was Obama, one was Scott and another one was Randy - each label carried a personal message from the bear. 
Todd, who was screwed to a Silver Birch - remained in position for well over a year - something of a record for bear@rt and Obama was later smuggled into Tate Modern where he was slipped into one of the installations (the one with all the beds and books).

3 comments:

  1. Look - we know time's passing mate, don't need reminding!

    hoyhoy

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  2. Hey hoyhoy, the thing is all the clocks were stopped. So time isn't passing. It's standing still. So what you gonna do with it? Thanks for comment.

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  3. Top quality stuff Graeme- really! Do you ever get anyone leaving any comments attached to bearart? And we all know there's no time like the present- but if anyone stole any of your clocks they'd know there's no present like the time!

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