"For alchemists the swan is the symbol for mercury. Quicksilver imaginings. Transmutations. A notion laboured over with considerable energy, and buckets of paint, by the guerrilla muralist known as Sweet Toof (or the Dentist) and his associate, Cyclops. These men track development along the inland waterways and into the Olympic Park: wherever a pseudo-wharf is laid out, a salmon-curing shed demolished, Sweet Toof will spray a graphic tribute in the form of a giant pink mouth loaded with monster molars. His serpent forms, Mayan in ferocity, devour glitz and offer blight the kiss of life."
-Iain Sinclair, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
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