In the early morning the walkway is quiet near the port. A tag team of three cyclists glide by me – perfect timing to fill the frame of my photograph. By 10am the local inhabitants are waking up to a stunning blue day, if not a little chilly – a perfect morning to pop on their walking shoes and embrace the sea air on the coastal walkway.
A tall spindly red pointer topped by a perspex ball stretches up into the dark blue sky as I near the downtown area. Kinetic artist Len Lye tested his first wind wands in New York during the early sixties, 40 years before this 48-metre high example was installed on the New Plymouth foreshore. On windy days it bends so far in the wind I wonder if it may snap. The Len Lye Centre at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery has more of the New Zealand-born artist’s mesmerising sculptures.
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