Green Horses on the Wall, Wandsworth Arts Festival 2012

In 2011, watching the performance parking bikes being installed above Roehampton Library, a local resident came up laughing that the installations reminded him of a saying in his country, Romania, ‘Green Horses on the Wall.’ When you see green horses on the wall, you’re dreaming of incredible or impossible ideas, as in ‘a pipe dream’ or ‘when pigs might fly.’

In 2012, reCyculture returned to Roehampton, and Wandsworth Arts Festival, to embrace the wonderful notion of Green Horses on the Wall and impossible dreams, with more impossible and improbable recycled bike installations around the estate.

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This time, we painted in a tent in the garden; mostly in the rain!

Our fabulous technicians, Simon & Martin, installed again

We recreated the jumping blue bike as one of the neighbours told us it had made her smile every morning, in 2011, when she opened the curtains.

Performance poet Chris Paradox was commissioned to create a spoken word piece about ridiculous ideas and what crazy dreams mean for the local community.

Here he is at the festival launch, very excited about the poster, where he read Green Horses on the Wall.