Gunite Bubbles

[Mitzi M]

Thanks Peter, that page was very cool~

The work in ferrocement makes me think of the incredible surrealist sculpture/architecture of Edward James. I found my way quite by accident to Xilitla as I was traveling through the Mexican mountains in a terrible storm one evening. I pulled off the highway up a dirt road and camped for the night there with the permission of the land's caretaker. In the morning, to my amazement, I found myself at Las Pozas, his surrealist garden constructed in the 1940's of old school kine concrete poured into intricately fashioned molds made of bamboo slats and wire.

Here's a cool video of the place - (I turned off the sound to view it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48gIswwwQg