Elephas Maximus
For a few weeks this summer, London is hosting a rather unusual exhibition of art, in the form of an Elephant Parade of 258 Indian (Asian) elephant statues, all painted or decorated by artists around a whole host of themes. The fund raising rationale behind this can all be found at the organisers’ web-site – http://www.elephantparadelondon.org/. However, the real challenge is to get to see all of them, when they are scattered as far afield as Heathrow airport, to Greenwich.
We had our first family outing to “hunt” elephants this afternoon, and bagged our first 54. Not a bad first attempt, although we did get a lot of the easy ones, which can be found in “happy herds” in the Royal Parks. As the day went on, we did venture further afield, including a novel session spent hunting around the interior of Selfridges. Anyway, day 1, and 54 bagged. Francesca had a great time, and wants to continue, so I suspect we’ll be doing more of this over the next few weeks, before the elephants are moved on and auctioned for the charity.
You can see photos of our hunt successes so far here (with the latest one shot at the start of the set), or by clicking on the image above. Francesca makes a guest appearance, posing in a few of the shots – she’s the small one in the pink 
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