Art: Genius! A kaleidoscope made of crystallised human hair...

Date
6 June 2013

We’d forgive you for looking at this and going “ewwwww” because yes, you’re right, it’s disgusting. But it’s also genius. Dan Keeffe along with Amy Webster, Milly Bruce and Sam Part, have taken human hair and miraculously transformed it into crystals which have then been lovingly inserted into a kaleidoscope for your viewing pleasure. The results are, as you can imagine, pretty horrendously gross (think dandruff crossed with the inside of your shower drain plughole) but how good is that idea?! And kudos for those guys for getting some scientists involved, they’re always worth the trouble, those clever clogs.

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Dan Keeffe: Crystallised Hair

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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