On our way home from the cottage, we stopped in at a private sculpture park that I’ve been curious about for some time. Known as Screaming Heads (for obvious reasons) it is the work and home of artist and retired high school teacher Peter Camani.
Over the course of nearly three decades, Peter has constructed more than 100 sculptures that are spread across eight hectares (20 acres) of his property. The monoliths are made of concrete and some are 5.5 metres (18 feet) tall, and weigh up to 18 tons. They are very bizarre but weirdly compelling at the same time. He has also turned his home into an odd sort of castle topped by a giant head, the “mouth” of which is his studio. The house features a two-headed dragon as a chimney, meaning that when the fireplace is on the dragons breathe smoke.
There is no fee to enter, but you can make a donation if you wish.
Unsurprisingly, the property is particularly popular around Hallowe’en. It was vaguely unsettling on a bright and sunny August day. At night, it would be downright creepy.
How strange but, as you say, weirdly compelling. I guess you might say he is a little eccentric. In a good way. I wonder if he could trace his DNA back to Easter Island.
Nice job on the collage- you should print a copy for him. It is oddly compelling and I would agree- not something you 'd want to see in the dark- unless you're into that kind of stuff! But in the daylight- an interesting place to visit and admire the creativity that drew him to do something like this in the first place.
August 17th, 2022
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