I lost her near Fantasy Island.
Life will not be the same.

On Friday 14 July 2006, a jack-knifed lorry shed its load of 25,000 flowers across Bristol city centre.

At 6pm, passers-by began to take the flowers, and by 7pm the installation was entirely dispersed across Bristol, as people walked home carrying armfuls of flowers. This was Heather and Ivan Morison’s I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life will not be the same… commissioned by Claire Doherty for the British Art Show 6. Unannounced and unexplained, the work operated as part monument and part performance intervention into public space, which captured the public’s imagination.

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