You couldn't make it up—or could you? The fact that a London-based artist/designer is turning to a popular crowdfunding platform to launch her latest project is hardly newsworthy, but it turns out that Ilona Gaynor is looking to plan an extremely elaborate bank robbery (a somewhat ironic twist on a certain topical New Yorker cartoon).
Gaynor has been plotting "Under Black Carpets" for some two years now, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike her hitlist of five major banks at One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles. What originated as an architectural observation—she notes that "particular events or moments could be hidden from view behind protruding floors, light refractions from the mirrored glass and thick palm tree heads"—has now evolved into an obsession: to get away with the perfect heist.
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