dimanche 23 mars 2008

Photo Hunt: Metal

Happy Easter Everyone! Here is Easter Sunday hunt for this week's theme.
A giant metal fork in the lake (technically it is made of steel), one of the many fascinating architectural images in our town of Vevey.

This structure was displayed for the second time last 2007, situated directly across the Musée de l’Alimentation (Nestlé Alimentarium), a museum devoted to the history of food products. The fork was to be displayed only for one year to commenorate its 10th anniversary. It was supposedly taken down last January but I am glad the petition to keep it around was granted. I searched more online for some information about this work of art. Below is an excerpt from an online blogger, Peterblog.

"It spent the last ten years decorating the grounds of Berndorf Ltd, a Lucerne-based cutlery manufacturer, and is back to celebrate an exhibition of place settings at the Alimentarium. The poor fork was banished a few years after it was set up orignally, in contravention of some local regulation or other.
It is the work of Jean-Pierre Zaugg, and artist from Neuchâtel (on another big lake, curiously enough) and was made by Georges Favre in Vevey out of stainless steel."

It still stands until now and you will see the different view of this metal sculpture when you walk along the quai perdonnet in whatever time of the year.
Until next week...

10 commentaires:

Aisha a dit…

Is this real? :D Very nice shot for the theme! Thanks so much for visiting my blog! Hope you'll come by again! Happy Easter.

Haydee a dit…

Oh yeah! that is very real...might looked like digitally done. The only thing i did was to turn it black and white. Thank you for visiting.

Sarge Charlie a dit…

this is also a unique entry, excellent, my original photo post had some old farming iron and other farmhouse items, I added a second entry because of something I saw while visiting other photo hunts, please stop by both, happy easter

Haydee a dit…

Thank you for stopping by sarge, i appreciate you leaving a comment.

Anonyme a dit…

Wow, I thought I had seen everything! LOL

amazingmusings.com a dit…

so that is REALLY a fork!

if i can vote the winner for the site of the day, i will surely choose your entry!

Dragonstar a dit…

That is so strange! It looks surreal standing there. Excellent shot.

Carver a dit…

Wow, that's really cool looking. Amazing.

escape a dit…

wow that's huge! looks very unreal but yes as you say it's real.

Anonyme a dit…

Thank you so much for your nice comment! Your metal-pic is really cool! :)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...