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Diane Alex Flack

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Cape Town 1972 ... can she lose 1 kilo in 10 days?

Weekly Contest #74

There were 10 of us with 1 or 2 fluctuating individuals moving in and out of the commune. It was 1972 in Cape Town. We lived in the old Russian embassy up on Molteno Road next to de Waal park. The Italian chandelier in the ballroom was the size of a double bed and it could be lowered almost to the floor – for cleaning purposes no doubt. But Sonny used it for a performance sculpture and we all visited proclaiming it; “interesting, unique and other vapid compliments!” What the hell, it was a bag of sand hanging below a chandelier as she recall...

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