023/365/2017: Flaming June
I first went to Leighton House Museum in 2014 to see a site specific performance by Palimpsest. It was such a beautiful building. When I heard that Flaming June (usually resident in Puerto Rico) was returning for an exhibition I knew I had to go and see her & the house again.
It's a strange thing, coming face to face with an iconic image. The closest thing I can liken it to is when you see someone from television in real life and feel like you know them, when of course you don't. She was completely radiant, and *so orange* something that really doesn't translate in the multiple reproduction images.
There's no photography allowed in the house itself (unfortunately so, because it's very beautiful) so this is a photo I took in Holland Park, just before my phone died, leaving me stranded and not knowing my way back to the road, let alone the tube station!
023/365/2017: Flaming June
I first went to Leighton House Museum in 2014 to see a site specific performance by Palimpsest. It was such a beautiful building. When I heard that Flaming June (usually resident in Puerto Rico) was returning for an exhibition I knew I had to go and see her & the house again.
It's a strange thing, coming face to face with an iconic image. The closest thing I can liken it to is when you see someone from television in real life and feel like you know them, when of course you don't. She was completely radiant, and *so orange* something that really doesn't translate in the multiple reproduction images.
There's no photography allowed in the house itself (unfortunately so, because it's very beautiful) so this is a photo I took in Holland Park, just before my phone died, leaving me stranded and not knowing my way back to the road, let alone the tube station!