Under Wraps

Alloa's Town Centre regeneration is nearing completion and this morning the artist Rob Mulholland (standing, middle of photo) was on site to install his contribution to the Imagine Alloa project.

The whole town centre was closed off as the lorry delivered 3 of these mirrored figures into position at the top of the High Street. The fourth one, representing a female mill worker, is going to stand near the site of the old Paton's Woollen Mill at Kilncraigs.

I asked when the bubble wrap was going to come off to unveil the finished pieces but the artist wasn't sure himself when this would be as there was still a fair bit of work going on around that needed finished. (Interestingly I noticed that in this picture there's a cherry picker raised up outside the building I blipped last week, hopefully doing a bit of a clean up on that. You can see it on the left of the picture here - try it BIG if you can't).

Actually, maybe the bubble wrap can stay on - as an interactive piece of Public Art you can't beat a bit of community bubble wrap popping.

I just hope these sculptures are appreciated and respected by the less artistically minded residents around here when they are eventually un-mummified. I can already see the trainee anatomists with their marker pens trying to add some extra features to these art works, though when I mentioned this to Rob he didn't seem overly concerned about it. It'll certainly might give fellow blipper Tractor Factory Photos some material for his other website (if you're not offended by crudely drawn male genitalia then have wee squint - www.cartooncocks.co.uk)

In other news, and after three days of thinking about it, I eventually got around to giving the grass its first cut - and there's even a video to prove it!