Holly Moley

the artist

The artists name is Holly Moley.

the art

The art consists of "shadow sculpture", only instead of stone or wood panels, Holly uses entire street blocks full of buildings. She tunnels under large cities and raises or drops whole sections in order to alter the way shadows fall in the city as the sun tracks across the sky. With tiles as large as a city block, she can only create two images per day. Some of her popular themes include:

	Morning shadow pattern                      Afternoon shadow pattern
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	Bob Dole                                    Bill Clinton
	Calvin                                      Hobbes
	George Burns (young)                        George Burns (at 100)
	The Beatles (1964)                          The Beatles (1969)
	Bhudda                                      Shiva
	The Virtual Beret page address              The Kook of the Month address

the beret

Holly's beret is a 100 foot diameter million ton jack with a steel top plate, tungsten gripping teeth and titanium reinforced hydraulics attached to her head.

Submitted by Andy Wing (agwing@astro.ocis.temple.edu), on Tuesday, 29 Oct 1996, from Temple University