Bubbles in the Fountain at UCLA 1985-88

title: Bubbles in the Fountain at UCLA 1985-88
medium: Bubble Bath, Fountain
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availability: No Longer Exists
concept and comments: I wanted to test people's reactions to a surrealistic phenomenon placed into their realities. The day I had to show my work it was sunny and people were laying out or sitting on the edge of the fountain. I poured bubble bath in the water from a coffe cup. Again an uncalculated miracle happened. As the fountain started to bubble suddenly the wind started to be so strong that it picked up big chunks of bubbles and blew them all over. People laughed and talked about it. They did not know who did it. I probably just saw Charlie Ray's Pepto Bismol box which blew me away. I was at the opening reception and someone tried to put the price list holder on the top of an appr. 4'x4'pink marble box which was filled with the same color Pepto Bismol. The price list holder of course started to sink, and Charlie was diving his arms nervously into the Pepto Bismol. The seemingly shiny, solid surface swallowed the object, making his point that things are not what they appear to be
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