In July, the Polymorphic Plastic Parade rolled into town and (in cooperation with Austin Green Art) set up camp in Republic Square Park, spent the night, and then headed over to our beloved MASS Gallery to explain themselves and their purpose to the people.

What is the Polymorphic Plastic Parade?

If you haven’t noticed, Art can be quite useless at times. Installation Art more or less is not only useless it can be quite wasteful, usually consisting of mostly waste itself; a big ass mess waiting to be disposed of after the show closes. These facts weighed heavily on the minds of installation artists Ian Gamble and Sarah Witt, so much so that they, like Diego Rivera, set out to make Art that was useful to the public, but unlike ‘Digs’, did so with by using my favorite non native invasive sustainable material, bamboo, and unlikely to be recycled tarpaulins, nicked from lumber yards, creating a village of tepees.

Fuggin Tepees y’all!!! I know right?! They managed to create affordable native housing out of non native materials. Afterwards, Ian & Sarah and some friends, loaded it all into a school bus to tour North America and spread their awesome outdoorsy gospel. This project became known as the…

Polymorphic Plastic Parade!