I love this little community art project but the only thing keeping people from taking them is apparently video surveillance. Is it sadly not permanent enough?
Rock snakes can be permanent, as the sign typically encourages others in the community to bring their own painted rock to add to the length of the snake. While I can’t fully read the sign, it does seem to be encouraging this, which would possibly make it a great place to explore. And most people don’t take the rocks that are left, as it’s a community art project, and so I find it a little funny that the video surveillance sign would be included, as that’s not needed to show it may be permanent; I’d focus more on the sign for the snake encouraging others to add to it.
Personally, if this had a better main photo, I would approve this as unique art, if it’s in an eligible location, which is hard to tell, as some people to create them on their private property or at schools. If the photo was of the sign and the beginning of the snake, that would make for a better main photo and possibly show it’s worth exploring.
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I mean the flimsy yard sign is even less permanent than the rock snake, i wouldn’t take that as proof or permanence
I’ve had 1 rock snake approved. It’s at the start of a walking path in a public park. The sign next to it was well written to explain the concept of leaving a rock behind. The snake was really long, so many people had added to it. And there was even a hashtag for it so people could post photos on Instagram of the rocks they left or of themselves finding the snake. All of that added up as proof of its permanence. I called it a community art project to help people understand the value of it.
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Local Story, Yorkshire UK.
During the early Covid Lockdown a young lad painted some stones and created a snake on his wall. Over night all the stones disappeared. After his Mother mentioned it on a couple of local facebook groups locals started painting there own and leaving them. The article below states approx 270 but I’m sure it ended being many more.
This post reminded me so I took a look to see what happened as it is definitely no longer there but can’t find anything 
. This makes it that I would not be confident that these could be classed as “Permanent” unless they where cemented in.
Well, most of the ones that I see are in parks, zoos, botanical gardens, and other public places. Most are created as a community art project for that area, and not at someone’s home as a yard decoration. Many may have info signs, and one may even be able to find news articles about them. I have thought of nominating a local painted rock garden outside of a restaurant, as they started it to bring a little joy to their patrons, and add some more fun to the city, and there are news articles about it.
This is a residential area in the story, and during the pandemic, there were just some who were doing some mean things by stealing the art that people were putting up at the homes.
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I agree with what you said, I did state in my post that it was started by 1 lad on his wall but ended been a community project that stretched all along the street. Obviously this 1 would have fallen foul to SFPRP rules.
There was talk that they would be moved somewhere and made permanent (I did see stories of others that where) but I could not find anything about this one.
Without them being cemented in and this is just my opinion I would find it difficult to call it permanent.
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