British architect/artist/technical wizard Alex Chinneck’s newest work is called A Pound Of Flesh For 50p..
For London’s Merge Festival he built a two story building that will be a structure to see and watch this month.

Working for over a year with many different chemists, wax specialists and engineers, Chinneck has managed to build a house completely from wax.

Replicating bricks from wax this one features over 8000 of them, set to melt over the course of 30 days. This house will eventually be nothing but a pile of waxed lumps coagulated on the ground with pieces of window and door frames sticking out.

The process will be something of a surreal slow motion break down of matter; where the wax will look like an organic disease spreading out down the building. The wax will consume itself – like something out of a bad B Grade horror movie.

Celebrating the Bankside district in London, this project harks back to the original candle-making factory on this site a couple of hundred years before.