ANIMARIS REX
by Theo Jansen a brand new 18-meter-long Strandbeest scuttles across the sands of a beach in The Netherlands in this video by Dutch Artist Theo Jansen, who has been releasing his otherworldly creatures each year since 1990 Throughout the summer, Jansen experimented with connecting several units together, which could work in succession. Animaris Rex s a herd of beach animals whose specimens hold each other as defense against storms,” he says. “As individuals, they would simply blow over, but as a group, the chance of surviving a storm would be greater.” Propelled by the wind with a series of large sails, the individual modules move in tandem to form a single entity. taken from 'thiscollossal' - a fabulous art 'magazine' that comes to my email regularly. Colossal is worth a traipse around - be prepared to go down many a rabbit hole. ..... Gina