Greetings from sayno2cuts
I’m a graduate from UCL and proud of the principled stand you are taking.
Together with a guy who lectures in other University of London institutions and one of my young sons we decided to create a large-scale protest artwork in Central London using only materials available in-situ.
We visited the shingle beach on the River Thames, which appears at low tide by the Royal Festival Hall, and re-arranged stones to spell:
NO CUTS
The smiley is 3 metres in diameter - not quite the scale of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” - but we only had 3 hours rather than 3 weeks! The installation “survives” successive tides as the stones bed down into the shingle.
We used the easytide website to determine that we had 2 hours either side of “Low Water” to contruct our artwork:
http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=0113&PredictionLength=7
The large stones don’t get moved around much by successive tides, but the eyes and mouth of the smiley were assembled from bricks and get scattered - so this artwork may need some maintenance. We went equiped with builders gloves for hand protection when moving the rough stones.
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