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'Seizure', Elephant and Castle

We went a few weeks ago, it was brilliant.

Did anyone else get an overwhelming urge to nick a bit of blue crystal? :o

Didn't though, of course. That would have been baaaad.
 
Anyone been to this? My sister only told me about it after I'd returned from my first trip to E&C in 3 years :mad:

It's a derelict flat, which has been filled with a strong copper sulphate solution till crystals have formed on every surface. They poured the solution in from above, through a hole in the ceiling. I wish, wish, wish, I'd seen it :(

No, but it sounds gorgeous, and that's without even looking at the link, as I'm still waiting for the page to load.
will post back.
 
Colourfulness was the only thing I loved about chemistry lessons way back in class. Copper sulphte never dissappointed, I love blue hues.
I used to hold up those blue "Quink" bottles to the light - and buzz out visually, in class wondering why the teacher got so exasperated (the ink was much more royal blue back in the seventies with quink ink"
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The first link is still loading.
 
He should try it with manganese, because, isn't that the one that turns magenta. That's if it's safe to do so, anyway.
 
I had no idea about this. Glad it's been extended- I'm going to try to get down there.
 
I went to see this a couple of weeks ago, and I was slightly underwhelmed.

I thought it would be bigger, and I thought I'd get a greater sense of it being an actual living space that had been crystalised - so in that respect the bathroom area was interesting, but the larger room just felt like a box, not a room in a flat.

The crystals were beautiful though.
 
I was told Wednesdays can be busy as it tends to be when they get school visits.

I went just before they closed on a Friday evening and had the place to myself.
 
i went this afternoon and *wow*

i really wanted to stroke the walls. or lick them. i'm not quite sure why :o
 
We could have gone together, tufts! Then I could have taken you to my fave current art installation which was fab, again. I might have to go back tomorrow or Sunday as it finishes then.

It was cool. I did touch it...... lots.
 
The colour was always a sidetrack for me, it was never about beauty, about claiming something to be a beautiful object after it had undergone the chrystalising process. That would be kind of banal, though banality is not a bad thing always.

I wonder what he thinks about most people's reaction being, ''ooh, purty, blue is yummy, I wonder if I can break a bit off, I love blue, I do'', rather than ''this negates a space which contained an experience which we have no idea about, no access to''.

I also see he's a Robin Hood Estate fan.
 
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