It's magic gang but not quite as we know it – let Lenka Clayton take you on a slowed-down journey of mystery...

Date
2 August 2012

Ever since the digital revolution supercharged the speed at which we live our lives, various movements have sprung up to celebrate the joys of going back to basics, pace-wise. Slow food, slow travel, slow design and their ilk have all helped rein in our rapidity and now Lenka Clayton has done the same thing for magic. Over several weeks in the windows of Paris’ L’Antenne (part of Le Plateau gallery) she carried out amazing illusions over the course of three days. Before people’s very eyes (eventually) flour and sugar became delicious cakes, pencils became stubs and shavings and an egg became a real life chicken.

It’s a delightfully silly idea executed flawlessly and the public setting added in a nice level of interaction with passers-by as captured in some of Martin Argyroglo’s photos. Abracadabra indeed.

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Lenka Clayton: Slow Magic Tricks (Photos by Martin Argyroglo)

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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