Attack of the Greeblies

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1999

Heading home through London one dull October, I took refuge in the V&A, only to find this hanging in the lobby. Apparently it was a leftover from from an exhibition of inflatable art, but it reminded me strongly of the monsters from Moebius and Jodorowsky's Incal saga.

I saw several people trying to photograph this with little compact cameras, the flashes spitting ineffectually in the vaulted gloom. If you've got a little compact and the light is poor, the only way to get a photograph of anything more than about ten feet away is to switch the flash off, lean against something for stability, hold your breath and hope the camera will give you a long enough shutter speed to record the image.

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