The Walrus

'The Walrus' was a performance made in May 2010 at the Ragged School Museum, London, as part of a 'Parlour Collective' event.

Working in the 'education space' of the museum, I made a pair of pupils out of cabbages, bread and wooden dolly pegs. These were placed on small chairs, and adorned with pipes and dunce caps. I then boiled a kettle and filled an empty oyster shell with salt and boiling water. Holding a disc of mirror over one eye like a monocle, and using a torch to illuminate it, I dropped fake tears from a pipette onto the mirror and down my cheek.