GOLDEN RE-ENACTMENT 18

October 23 2025

Birkenhead Park Boathouse 

53.394057-3.037503

15.00 hrs

Liaise with ToXteth Sphinx and Charlie at Birkenhead Park Boathouse in order to exchange 23g of cremated remains for them to include in their incredibly beautiful stained glass neighbour to the People's Pyramid, The Sphinx. 

Each coloured glass panel in the Sphinx is created using ashes from pets, Principally cats, but now all animals are allowed in, in a process they call MewMewfication.

We have brought ‘relics’ for a ritual burning in order to mark the occasion. 

Warming the park for the forthcoming People's Pyramid bricklaying ceremony and honouring a friend who’s paper florall tribute becomes the centre piece of a pyre in the centre of the boathouse. 

We add symbolic tokens interlaced into the petals. Fake £50 notes and £100 dollar bills and light them with a match.

Charlie takes the part of Gimpo, and quickly films the burning on his phone, as the tissue paper peony is engulfed quickly and burns brightly as the dusk begins to fall. 

There is a spark of magic in the air as we leave. In a month's time there will be further spektical in the park when “Call the Ancestors”.