Anish Kapoor's new exhibition covers the Royal Academy in poured, flung and spattered crimson paint - and mysterious worm-cast mountains.
There was a red liquid splashed all around them, like crimson paint, and Rosie found herself, for a breath, unable to work out what it was.
At one point, three performers painted themselves red with crimson paint jetting from under their wide collars.
The Allies called these airmen "Redtails" or "Redtail Angels," because of the distinctive crimson paint applied on the vertical stabilizers of the unit's aircraft.
Plus the random throwing of crimson paint in everyone's hair.
Even some of the dirt had been wiped off, exposing some more of the crimson paint.
In seconds flat, a troop of running feet had spread it up and down the sidewalk, as if manic children had gone racing through a pool of crimson paint.
Every skin-scale of his back, chest, upper arms, and thighs was adorned with a design done in gold or crimson paint.
Where repairs have been needed, they're slapped together and given a quick coat of crimson paint.
The Charger was a pretty slick job, in crimson metallic-flake paint with chromed exhausts.