The Big Art project could be the best thing that's ever happened to Cardigan - that's the view of younger people in the town it was claimed this week.

After months of negative comments about the £600,000 project, younger people are now coming forward to voice their support.

This comes in the wake of warnings that the project will fail if it does not get the backing of the community.

"Big Art is a fantastic idea and something that will bring tourists and customers into Cardigan," said 22-year-old Liz Greenhalgh, who will be taking over a town shop in the next few months.

"It's far better that the money is invested in our town rather than any other. I'm all for it - and so are a lot of young people."

Liz's views were backed up by artist Rowan O'Neill, 31, who wants to use Rafael Lozano Hemmer's floating buoys to create her own project.

Rowan, who has a masters in performance from Goldsmiths, plans to translate Simon and Garfunkel's So Long Frank Lloyd Wright' into Welsh and get a choir to sing it into the Big Art installation.

"Frank Lloyd Wright was a famous American architect, but his family originally came from Llandysul," she explained.

"I'm very excited by its potential," she said.

Big Art project officer Jim Evans welcomed their views and called on other local artists to think of ways of using the installation.

"Young people are the future of the town and they don't have a voice," he said.

He added that £30,000 worth of funding had already been released to build a prototype of the project. The Channel 4 programme is set to be screened in November - around the time the art work will be ready.

But he added that if negative feedback continued, Rafael could pull out of the project.

"It needs community backing," he said.

"Of the seven projects, Cardigan is one of only two that look set to be realised," he said.

"How will it look if Cardigan is seen as the town that turned its nose up at art?"