Uli Liessmann has been busy organising the Home Hill Harvest Festival Ephemera while creating his own entries, but another project that goes hand in hand with the Ephemera installations has come into fruition – one that has been over a decade in the making.
Visitors to Lloyd Mann Park will be familiar with the Stonehenge-inspired structure created by local artist Scotty Apelt.
The structure, titled ‘The Gateway to Home Hill’, has now been covered with over 1,300 photos collected from around the town, an effort of Uli and other locals that has taken 15 months to complete.
The photos have been collected from a number of sources, including longtime locals who have shared their photos and memories with Uli.
“There’s a lot of pictures I wanted to get in, but I just couldn’t because of the quality,” Uli said.
“Some of these would date back to the early 1900s, if not older.”
The photos have been printed onto “the best vinyl money can buy,” and is hoped to be in place for at least 10 years.
“I’m extremely pleased with it, I really am,” Uli said.
“I really hope people use it as a photo backdrop for their photos.
“People might walk in and spend hours looking at it, and I really hope they do.
Longtime local and former boatbuilder Barry Dale spent his Thursday afternoon at ‘the Gateway to Home Hill’ exploring the photos and going down memory lane.
“I think it’s fantastic; it’s unbelievable,” Barry said.
“I didn’t think they could do this sort of stuff, it’s fantastic.
“You can go back and you can see the people who used to be old when you were young, it’s lovely.”
‘The Gateway to Home Hill’ joins three other permanent installations at Lloyd Mann Park, ‘That is the Question’, ‘Open to New Ideas’ and ‘The Point Is…’ all by Uli.
Home Hill Harvest Festival’s Ephemera installations are currently in place at the park and will be until the end of the festival.
Find out more about the Ephemera on pages 24-26.
Uli Liessmann stands in front of ‘the Gateway to Home Hill’ while Barry Dale peruses the photos. Photo credit: Sam Gillespie
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