Made using:

34tonnes of steel scaffolding (recycled before and will be recycled again) to create an armature
Scaffolding especially painted red. Red cable ties used. Clad in plastic Coca Cola crates (also recycled again and again) after a complete wrap of steel mesh to enable the cladding to sit flush. About 3000 crates used.

Design concept by Porky Hefer in 2006. Produced by AAW Art Project Management working with the very calm Mark Sinoff. Engineering Jacek XXX. Scaffolding SGB.

“Coca Cola HAVE some serious courage and imagination by sponsoring these two works. Although we've seen some art made of crates and other works made of scaffolding around the world in the last decade, this is a challenging international contemporary piece that has literally confounded us with intense engineering innovation to a myriad of bureaucratic hurdles ... but we had a brilliant team who somehow got calmer as the complexities got more thwart-orientated.It's the first time we managed a project for an artist whose shown as much stamina as genius (three years looking for the funding) and we are enchanted to be alive at the same time as him. Cratefan is far out. He reminds of us our cities’ big strength and we keep expecting him to walk around. Catch a shark in Cape Town. Catch a lawyer in Joburg.”