Santa Fun Run

Santas are one of those things that just look better en masse. It was a lot of fun to be one of a thousand people in Santa suits running the 5km circuit around Lake Burley Griffin. Part of the enjoyment was seeing the bewilderment on the faces of people we passed as they were just out for a morning stroll.

Santas come in all shapes and sizes

Wo, wo, wo! Hairy Christmas!

Sprinting Santa makes a break for it

Santa of the North, Down Under

Santa wants an E-type; either one will do...

We sprinted (oh, alright then, jogged) off course to check out the jaguars at the Terribly British Day, which was an exhibition of British motor vehicles, held by the lake shore. After completing the 'run', we returned for more drooling.

Swoon!

Oh look - the colour matches my face!

Sculptures by the Lake

We were riding around Lake Burley Griffin when we came across this sculpture of the Angel of the North by Antony Gormley. It is a life-size maquette from 1996 and number four of five. It was kind of comforting to see it down here. 


The Angel of the North (life-size maquette) by Antony Gormley

As above, with Him Outdoors

This work is called Witness by Dadang Christanto and was commissioned by the ANU in 2004. The artist has nailed sculptured sheets of aluminium to a dead tree in the grounds of the Australian National University. The shapes are meant to represent birds clustering on the branches,and in their abstract forms they resemble aboriginal depictions.

They shine and clatter in the breeze and the sun/showers of winter, paradoxically like a scarecrow, but I noticed a couple of magpies who weren't to be intimidated perching alongside their gleaming counterparts!



Witness by Dadang Christanto



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