Recently I found this barbie boombox dream house from the 90s and bought it.
It had a working radio (“working” is putting it strongly. I did have to do some rewiring), but I wanted to make the cassette player part a reality and also redo the interior. So I did:
Riot grrrl apartment circa 1990s, with working radio + tape player 🖤
Rather than present a sculpture inside an architectural space, he’s turned every surface of the architectural space into sculpture. Mixing installation art and chemistry, he’s taken an entire abandoned apartment near London’s Elephant & Castle and transformed it into a gemstone. Covering the inside with blue copper sulphate crystals, he’s created an other-worldly, mineralized, glinting mirror of an everyday apartment. Jewels literally glowing from the ceiling and lining the floors… (via)
