So in the Souvenir Guide this giraffe is referred to as a “wild card”, which makes sense considering it’s the only interactive one. It’s essentially a three-dimensional blackboard, and came complete with a box of chalk so that passers-by could add their own drawings, doodles, names or dedications. As you can see, by the time we got there is was already covered from head to hoof.
The only permanent markings were a tic-tac-toe board on the back, a necklace of primary shapes around the neck and a few decorations on the head, which you can barely see amongst all the chalk scribbles – though I suppose we have to give artist Hayden Graham for them?
For Fun was situated outside Christchurch’s South Library, which allowed for a large foot-count of children and their artistic talent – though when I saw this giraffe again at the Russley Golf Course (where they gathered all the sculptures after January 24th of 2015) it had been wiped clean.
I suppose there’s some metaphor there about the impermanence of art, though it seemed a shame to lose all that work.
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