Drive-by Art

These photos were kindly - and skilfully, I might add - taken by my sister Rowena as we were driving down the Eastlink freeway on our way back from a trip to the beach. When this new freeway was constructed, several artists were comissioned to construct public artworks to appear near the road. Pictured are above, Callum Morton's Hotel and top is Simeon Nelson's Desiring Machine. Both works occupy the landscape in interesting ways; Morton's by sheer unexpectedness and contrast, whilst Nelson's sculpture appears somehow at home, even if it appears to have crash-landed there...