Leanne Bell Gonczarow A False Lead |
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On reading (again in a free newspaper, on the 24th February 2008) that the following morning, artist Stuart Semple was going to release smiley-faced pink clouds over the capital from outside Tate Modern on London’s South Bank, I wondered (not necessarily in this order): Could this be the cause of the pink glow? Was the pink glow a remnant of a trial run for the artist? With some trepidation I arrived on the South Bank at 9am on Wednesday 25th February 2009 to witness the event. I was at first disappointed and then relieved to find I had followed a false lead made of helium, soap and vegetable dye. I spent an hour watching the somewhat melancholy smileys drifting over the Thames, feeling a sense of community spirit as I held my mobile phone wistfully up to the sky in unison with my fellow cloudspotters. I asked myself, had I really been expecting to see a spectacle akin to the aurora borealis emerge smiling from a cloud making machine? info@leannebellgonczarow.com |
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