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Daily Mirror
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Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Art installation creates chaotic spectacle and drenches woman in rainbow-coloured foam

An ambitious art installation ended up creating a chaotic spectacle when it relentlessly drenched a worker in rainbow-coloured foam.

Island of Foam: Version XVIII by German artist Stephanie Luening had been installed to 'mesmerise' onlookers and ' transform' the Greenwich Peninsula surrounding the O2 Arena in London by sending mountains of coloured liquid through the streets.

But a gust of wind turned the entire display into a foam frenzy after it suddenly began blowing the other way, causing one woman working the machine to face an onslaught thought to have lasted at least 20 minutes.

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