Landart @ Weldon Kaya 2012
Photographs by Anja Wiehl Photography
Following the successful international land art event held in Plettenberg Bay in May 2011, an informal group of local artists resolved to keep the spirit of art in nature alive by facilitating a hands-on art event for all residents to coincide with World Environment Week in early June.
While the natural beauty of our town has always inspired artists, the group felt that it was time for an art event that would offer artists and public alike the opportunity to explore their creativity by working with unusual materials on an unusual site, while being made aware of their environment.
Weldon Kaya, just of the N2, is a fascinating jumble of ruins, set on a site of grassland and trees with a spectacular view over the Piesang Valley and the sea. Natural and other unusual potential art materials abound on the site – thatching reeds, stones, colourful builders’ rubble, grass, vegetation and, of course, the wonderful ruins themselves, to be used as a backdrop to making art.