Street Art: Rammed Earth Elephant

Rammed Earth Elephant is the work of Dominic Snow, who set up a Kickstarter to highlight the crafting and building technique and to raise money for charity and conservation efforts. The technique involves compacting earth together to build the elephants, which is an ancient wall-building method. This wall-building method of compacting dirt and stone was used to create the Great Wall of China.

In November, I discovered a single elephant on Brick Lane. By the end of January, the elephant family increased in size to three.

The Great Elephant Treasure Hunt is a Facebook page set up to highlight the street art elephants in their environments across the UK: https://www.facebook.com/great.elephant.treasure.hunt/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf