Also as part of London Design Festival, German-born artist Rolf Sachs has debuted a new piece titled ‘The Journey of a Drop’ in the Henry Cole Wing Grand Staircase at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The architecture of the staircase, not usually accessible to the public, is interesting in it’s own right. But, when an artist choreographs drops of coloured ink to fall the full height of the wing, some six storeys, to then disperse into a vat of water, then it makes it all the more intriguing. Timed every 30 seconds, and echoed by a microphone in the tank of liquid, you could stand, mesmerised by the coloured patterns, for hours. Rolf has said of the work: ‘As the drops commence their journey, there will be a sense of anticipation, followed by a visual spectacle. Each drop within the sequence creates a unique and magical colour explosion, mysteriously disappearing moments later’.
