Scaffolded Big Ben
Souvenirs are usually associated with kitsch, mass-produced, iconic miniatures vastly available for purchase. They possess little to no time frame that promptly indicates the period in which tourists experienced a memorable event.
While Big Ben was still under scaffoldings, visitors carried on with their touristic agendas. They would take pictures of the tower and buy its miniature version to take home as a memento of the trip- even though the monument was essentially redacted from London’s landscape.
The keychains establishes a parallel between the height of Big Ben’s scaffoldings and time spent in London, looking for a more authentic way to represent the clock tower.
Available in your local kiosk, at only 0.00001% the price of Big Ben’s renovations
Souvenirs are usually associated with kitsch, mass-produced, iconic miniatures vastly available for purchase. They possess little to no time frame that promptly indicates the period in which tourists experienced a memorable event.
While Big Ben was still under scaffoldings, visitors carried on with their touristic agendas. They would take pictures of the tower and buy its miniature version to take home as a memento of the trip- even though the monument was essentially redacted from London’s landscape.
The keychains establishes a parallel between the height of Big Ben’s scaffoldings and time spent in London, looking for a more authentic way to represent the clock tower.
Available in your local kiosk, at only 0.00001% the price of Big Ben’s renovations