Multidisciplinary Artist | Lolly Adams

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'Lard Fountain (performance ii)' 2024

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Miss HerNia & Co performing 'Tasty' at Eastbourne Theatres 2023

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Grandad's Tooth, work in progress animation

My film “Pick Me” has been selected for an evening of shorts @riocinema > this Thursday 1st May.

GRANNY LUDSKI’S WILD GARDENING
THURSDAY, 01 MAY 7-11 PM, RIO CINEMA

Granny is back!!!!
The Rio Cinema founder presents a night of art films, live music and queer performance, to celebrate Spring’s renewing desires and disasters, get some tips from the ecosex manifesto, and listen in the deep of our awakening bodies.
Selected films will show the connection between queer plants and queer people, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and love to incorporate the natural world.

Film artists: Zheng Bo (Pteridophilia), Valentin Ranger, Lolly Adams, Autojektor, Edd Carr, Elisabetta Antonucci and more artists to come.

PROGRAMME:

7-8 PM PRE-SHOW (Foyer, Circle, Ludski Bar)
Special performance by Andrew Woodyatt (Pink Palace), dedicated to the cult documentary GREY GARDENS, and sound performance by Rosa (Dream Emulator). Inspired by the practices of worm grunting, a folk method for drawing worms out from the soil to be captured, we will call into the soil using bass frequencies, both tilling and calling the soil forth. Through concrete and lead piping, a 45hz song will be heard by the depths.

8-11 PM SHOW (Screen1)
Art Film Screenings and Live Performances.

For more information, please write to grannyludski@gmail.com
VISIT THE RIO WEBSITE FOR TICKETS

@danperry_x
@am_i_margaret
@aje.inc
@pinkpalacequeerfilmclub
@conrad__armstrong
@kurtislincoln
@mustkika
@nela_shine
@rosa.pms
@saparfitt
@shemfillmore
@simnedonadni
@whyareyoubeingweirdwithme
@valentinranger
@lollyadams
@misshernia
@autojektorx
@_eddcarr_

Pick Me by Lolly Adams
Animator: @markusxfiedler
Sound & Music: Dominic Kennedy
Vocals: @tairayne

My film “Pick Me” has been selected for an evening of shorts @riocinema > this Thursday 1st May.

GRANNY LUDSKI’S WILD GARDENING
THURSDAY, 01 MAY 7-11 PM, RIO CINEMA

Granny is back!!!!
The Rio Cinema founder presents a night of art films, live music and queer performance, to celebrate Spring’s renewing desires and disasters, get some tips from the ecosex manifesto, and listen in the deep of our awakening bodies.
Selected films will show the connection between queer plants and queer people, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and love to incorporate the natural world.

Film artists: Zheng Bo (Pteridophilia), Valentin Ranger, Lolly Adams, Autojektor, Edd Carr, Elisabetta Antonucci and more artists to come.

PROGRAMME:

7-8 PM PRE-SHOW (Foyer, Circle, Ludski Bar)
Special performance by Andrew Woodyatt (Pink Palace), dedicated to the cult documentary GREY GARDENS, and sound performance by Rosa (Dream Emulator). Inspired by the practices of worm grunting, a folk method for drawing worms out from the soil to be captured, we will call into the soil using bass frequencies, both tilling and calling the soil forth. Through concrete and lead piping, a 45hz song will be heard by the depths.

8-11 PM SHOW (Screen1)
Art Film Screenings and Live Performances.

For more information, please write to grannyludski@gmail.com
VISIT THE RIO WEBSITE FOR TICKETS

@danperry_x
@am_i_margaret
@aje.inc
@pinkpalacequeerfilmclub
@conrad__armstrong
@kurtislincoln
@mustkika
@nela_shine
@rosa.pms
@saparfitt
@shemfillmore
@simnedonadni
@whyareyoubeingweirdwithme
@valentinranger
@lollyadams
@misshernia
@autojektorx
@_eddcarr_

Pick Me by Lolly Adams
Animator: @markusxfiedler
Sound & Music: Dominic Kennedy
Vocals: @tairayne

@underworld.uk・・・ UNDERWORLD 003 IS ALMOST UPON US! Get ready to shake some IKKII STIKKII arsssse for the launch party on May 1st at Plantroom in Hackney Wick 💋

Featuring DJ sets and performances from @dan.na.reyes @gay_rage_ @hollywarcup @perverse.cowboy @trashedbaby @lirabowels @cultofshane @mahsasalali

Ticket link in bio! 😼

@underworld.uk・・・ UNDERWORLD 003 IS ALMOST UPON US! Get ready to shake some IKKII STIKKII arsssse for the launch party on May 1st at Plantroom in Hackney Wick 💋

Featuring DJ sets and performances from @dan.na.reyes @gay_rage_ @hollywarcup @perverse.cowboy @trashedbaby @lirabowels @cultofshane @mahsasalali

Ticket link in bio! 😼

27/04/25 2-4:30pm @vamuseum in the Art Studio I’m running a workshop as part of the Performance Festival. Link in bio - sign up on the day ✨

EXQUIZIT CREECHAHZ: Costume making workshop with Miss HerNia plus complimentary tea party / performance ritual afterwards! 👹

We’ll develop characters to draw inspiration from to create masks using transfer dyeing techniques and brooches with latex elements and frills. 🧁

This workshop is one of two organised by the Staging Decadence project for the Performance Festival, alongside a zine-making workshop led by E.M. Parry @e_m_parry in the Art Studio at 10:30 – 13:00.

Free and open to all. xx

Revenge Prawn 🦐 🥗
📸 @poppyjenniifer

27/04/25 2-4:30pm @vamuseum in the Art Studio I’m running a workshop as part of the Performance Festival. Link in bio - sign up on the day ✨

EXQUIZIT CREECHAHZ: Costume making workshop with Miss HerNia plus complimentary tea party / performance ritual afterwards! 👹

We’ll develop characters to draw inspiration from to create masks using transfer dyeing techniques and brooches with latex elements and frills. 🧁

This workshop is one of two organised by the Staging Decadence project for the Performance Festival, alongside a zine-making workshop led by E.M. Parry @e_m_parry in the Art Studio at 10:30 – 13:00.

Free and open to all. xx

Revenge Prawn 🦐 🥗
📸 @poppyjenniifer

@misshernia is mentioned in an academic book! ‘Staging Decadence: Contemporary Theatre and the Ends of Capitalism’(2023) written by Adam Alston published by @bloomsburypublishing !!!

“Staging Decadence convincingly illustrates how, amid the frenzy, stagnation, and relentless productivism of present-day capitalism, artists and performers take pleasure in the ruin and waste and, far from escaping the material conditions of the modern world, imagine their way to alternatives. Alston vividly demonstrates how decadence is embodied—exuberantly, lavishly, grotesquely, wastefully, weirdly, queerly — on the stage, in live performance, and in the work of a kaleidoscopic array of artists.” Robert Stilling

I’m touched to grace the pages among these legends including; @paulmccarthyyy @ronathey_4 @rosewoodperforms @jaamil_means_beauty @lucy_muck @mri_berserker @acteursgroep_wunderbaum @oozing_gloop @juliabardsley

If you’re studying or working in an educational institution- highly recommended requesting this book to be in the library <3

Very chuffed to share that it’s been added to the @royalacademyschools library and student archive.

@misshernia is mentioned in an academic book! ‘Staging Decadence: Contemporary Theatre and the Ends of Capitalism’(2023) written by Adam Alston published by @bloomsburypublishing !!!

“Staging Decadence convincingly illustrates how, amid the frenzy, stagnation, and relentless productivism of present-day capitalism, artists and performers take pleasure in the ruin and waste and, far from escaping the material conditions of the modern world, imagine their way to alternatives. Alston vividly demonstrates how decadence is embodied—exuberantly, lavishly, grotesquely, wastefully, weirdly, queerly — on the stage, in live performance, and in the work of a kaleidoscopic array of artists.” Robert Stilling

I’m touched to grace the pages among these legends including; @paulmccarthyyy @ronathey_4 @rosewoodperforms @jaamil_means_beauty @lucy_muck @mri_berserker @acteursgroep_wunderbaum @oozing_gloop @juliabardsley

If you’re studying or working in an educational institution- highly recommended requesting this book to be in the library <3

Very chuffed to share that it’s been added to the @royalacademyschools library and student archive.

Here’s @misshernia sculpting lard in my studio @royalacademyschools for the @royalacademyarts magazine winter edition. (Link in bio) There is a little interview in there if you’d like to read about me punching butter in cling film like a ball sack 🫶🏼✨ kisses 💋

Plus: Inside the Mind of Laurie Anderson, Hon RA; Mary Beard and Tomiwa Owolade debate the question ‘Should art ever be destroyed?’; James Imam on the uses of Renaissance art in contemporary Florentine politics; second-year students from the Royal Academy Schools reveal materials important to their practices, and William Tucker RA shares his research into the Italian life model who inspired Matisse and Rodin.

Here’s @misshernia sculpting lard in my studio @royalacademyschools for the @royalacademyarts magazine winter edition. (Link in bio) There is a little interview in there if you’d like to read about me punching butter in cling film like a ball sack 🫶🏼✨ kisses 💋

Plus: Inside the Mind of Laurie Anderson, Hon RA; Mary Beard and Tomiwa Owolade debate the question ‘Should art ever be destroyed?’; James Imam on the uses of Renaissance art in contemporary Florentine politics; second-year students from the Royal Academy Schools reveal materials important to their practices, and William Tucker RA shares his research into the Italian life model who inspired Matisse and Rodin.

Thanks for having me @englishgrass GRASS Magazine Issue 5: The Milestone 🌿

Out Now! Support working class creatives; journalism, literature, art, style, photography.

Featuring work by Am Ubhi, Elif Yilmazturk, Eva Dixon, Ezra Miles, Gavin Watson, Jim Gibson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lolly Adams, Lucy Waters, Megan Georgia Smith, Steve Burden, Theo Papandreopoulos, and Tommy Sissons.

@theburdenof.art
@elifyilmazturk
@evadixon.png
@megangeorgiasmith
@ezramilespoet
@_gavin_watson
@waters_artlucy
@jimbobilicious
@theo_papandr
amesubhi
@tommyfredsissons

Editor @tommyfredsissons
Graphic designer @jakebuck
Sound by: archie_presley_audio

Thanks for having me @englishgrass GRASS Magazine Issue 5: The Milestone 🌿

Out Now! Support working class creatives; journalism, literature, art, style, photography.

Featuring work by Am Ubhi, Elif Yilmazturk, Eva Dixon, Ezra Miles, Gavin Watson, Jim Gibson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lolly Adams, Lucy Waters, Megan Georgia Smith, Steve Burden, Theo Papandreopoulos, and Tommy Sissons.

@theburdenof.art
@elifyilmazturk
@evadixon.png
@megangeorgiasmith
@ezramilespoet
@_gavin_watson
@waters_artlucy
@jimbobilicious
@theo_papandr
amesubhi
@tommyfredsissons

Editor @tommyfredsissons
Graphic designer @jakebuck
Sound by: archie_presley_audio

Leigh Bowery opening last night @tate was so dreamy xxx very gorgeous to bump into so many people I’ve known over the years xxx what an absolute icon and inspiration he has been for us🌹🙇🏻‍♀️

Leigh Bowery opening last night @tate was so dreamy xxx very gorgeous to bump into so many people I’ve known over the years xxx what an absolute icon and inspiration he has been for us🌹🙇🏻‍♀️

TONIGHT 21/02/25 @ormsideprojects @resonancefm fundraiser xx

TONIGHT 21/02/25 @ormsideprojects @resonancefm fundraiser xx

・・・
ORMSIDE PROJECTS & RESONANCE
Curated by Kinn @kinn_dread

Kinn (live)
Meat Strap (live)
Miss HerNia & Co.
Smith Parkman
TFT (live)

Beatrice Vorster & Yasmin Vardi (film screening)

DJs
Gus Cantor
The Crying Room

More tba…

Friday, 21st February

Tickets on sale now via @dicefm - link in bio
£11 (early bird)
£13
£15 OTD

Designed by @straight.ola
35mm by Kinn
Dev & Scan by @katrinaastamatopoulos

Miss HerNia images by @remainsofd

・・・
ORMSIDE PROJECTS & RESONANCE
Curated by Kinn @kinn_dread

Kinn (live)
Meat Strap (live)
Miss HerNia & Co.
Smith Parkman
TFT (live)

Beatrice Vorster & Yasmin Vardi (film screening)

DJs
Gus Cantor
The Crying Room

More tba…

Friday, 21st February

Tickets on sale now via @dicefm - link in bio
£11 (early bird)
£13
£15 OTD

Designed by @straight.ola
35mm by Kinn
Dev & Scan by @katrinaastamatopoulos

Miss HerNia images by @remainsofd

🥹 appreciate you all so much! xxx 😘

🥹 appreciate you all so much! xxx 😘

Thanks for the support you wonderful people! Loved bringing together so many epic ones who have shaped me over the years, felt so excited to share this new work with you,🌹🥲 the show is open until 16th Feb 2025. I’ll be there Tues-Thurs xx 💋✨🫶🏼

Thanks for the support you wonderful people! Loved bringing together so many epic ones who have shaped me over the years, felt so excited to share this new work with you,🌹🥲 the show is open until 16th Feb 2025. I’ll be there Tues-Thurs xx 💋✨🫶🏼

fallen angel @lambdog1066 nye 2024 💘

fallen angel @lambdog1066 nye 2024 💘

Nanny and breathing Jesus, Dec 2024 ✨

Nanny and breathing Jesus, Dec 2024 ✨

Prom dates and mates 🐀 👑 ✨

Prom dates and mates 🐀 👑 ✨

Class of 2026 @royalacademyschools prom 2024 ✨

📸 @rahrahhima

Class of 2026 @royalacademyschools prom 2024 ✨

📸 @rahrahhima

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday 16th January 6-9pm > RSVP in link in my bio > halfway through my time at the RA > Premiums #1: @royalacademyschools > I will be in an exhibition in the Weston Studio Gallery with @mayajcampbell and @dwaynecoleman in the centre of the Royal Academy - message me directly if you can make it as your name will need to be on the list ✨ Really appreciate it if you can make it and we can celebrate each other and another new mad year ahead being brilliant dickheads 💩✨🎉

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday 16th January 6-9pm > RSVP in link in my bio > halfway through my time at the RA > Premiums #1: @royalacademyschools > I will be in an exhibition in the Weston Studio Gallery with @mayajcampbell and @dwaynecoleman in the centre of the Royal Academy - message me directly if you can make it as your name will need to be on the list ✨ Really appreciate it if you can make it and we can celebrate each other and another new mad year ahead being brilliant dickheads 💩✨🎉

SAVE THE DATE 🧿 December 7th, 5pm - 1a🌚CHEMIST WINTER HAPPENING: A night of performances, art raffle, live music dj sets, cocktails and home-made food to mark our (almost) 2 years of activity and to help us raise funds for upcoming projects. Thanks to all the amazing artists and collaborators who are contributing to this event, we couldn’t make it without you 💜
Doors open at 5
5:30- 7:30 performances With @lollyadams, @williamjoys, @walshbernard, @dinodesica
8 Art Raffle // a chance to win original artwork contributed by the amazing artrists who’ve collaborated with us // hosted by @dinodesica
9 Live Music // @bad_sip will play love songs for the roly-poly cohort
10-1 Dj Sets with @katieshannon23 @benjaminwhateley @denglord

Link in bio for tickets, which are 10£ including a drink.
Tickets for the art raffle for 5£, you can buy on the day or through the PayPal link - in case you can’t make it and want a chance to win amazing art 🌪

Design by @oliverlong_
Special thanks to @gray_carmen

SAVE THE DATE 🧿 December 7th, 5pm - 1a🌚CHEMIST WINTER HAPPENING: A night of performances, art raffle, live music dj sets, cocktails and home-made food to mark our (almost) 2 years of activity and to help us raise funds for upcoming projects. Thanks to all the amazing artists and collaborators who are contributing to this event, we couldn’t make it without you 💜
Doors open at 5
5:30- 7:30 performances With @lollyadams, @williamjoys, @walshbernard, @dinodesica
8 Art Raffle // a chance to win original artwork contributed by the amazing artrists who’ve collaborated with us // hosted by @dinodesica
9 Live Music // @bad_sip will play love songs for the roly-poly cohort
10-1 Dj Sets with @katieshannon23 @benjaminwhateley @denglord

Link in bio for tickets, which are 10£ including a drink.
Tickets for the art raffle for 5£, you can buy on the day or through the PayPal link - in case you can’t make it and want a chance to win amazing art 🌪

Design by @oliverlong_
Special thanks to @gray_carmen

Cheeky knee x 📸 @nessoono

Cheeky knee x 📸 @nessoono

Install shots from “Insufferably Sweet” open until 09/11/24 at Sadie Coles HQ shop on Kingly Street @sadiecoleshq

All works by class of 2026 @royalacademyschools

Install shots from “Insufferably Sweet” open until 09/11/24 at Sadie Coles HQ shop on Kingly Street @sadiecoleshq

All works by class of 2026 @royalacademyschools

Currently on display in “Insufferably Sweet” @sadiecoleshq shop space - until this Saturday 9th November. (Thanks to peeps who came to the opening 🐣)

Lolly Adams
Gargoyle, 2024
Silk satin, formed plastic, metal chain with diamantés
38 cm x 90 cm x 16cm

Currently on display in “Insufferably Sweet” @sadiecoleshq shop space - until this Saturday 9th November. (Thanks to peeps who came to the opening 🐣)

Lolly Adams
Gargoyle, 2024
Silk satin, formed plastic, metal chain with diamantés
38 cm x 90 cm x 16cm

Lolly Adams, ‘Pick Me’, 2024, 3D animation, 1 minute 52 seconds (looped).

Working with: Animator: Markus Fielder @markusfielder, sound and music: Dominic Kennedy and vocals: Bianca Stephens @tairayne

Based on heartache songs by The Supremes, ‘Pick Me’ is sung by three sphincter-esq flowers who sing to the sunlight that shines through the drain above.

This video is from the film ‘Grandad’s Tooth’.
I received DYCP funding from @aceagrams in 2022 to transform my performance practice with Miss HerNia @misshernia into a 3D animation. This film brings together the Miss HerNia inception story and follows a lost tooth that travels through a magical and monstrous subterranean world, where it becomes the missing link in a mutant fat-creature’s plan to swallow and digest all of humanity.

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ in the Weston Studio is open until 3 November 2024.

Photos: Andy Keate

Lolly Adams, ‘Pick Me’, 2024, 3D animation, 1 minute 52 seconds (looped).

Working with: Animator: Markus Fielder @markusfielder, sound and music: Dominic Kennedy and vocals: Bianca Stephens @tairayne

Based on heartache songs by The Supremes, ‘Pick Me’ is sung by three sphincter-esq flowers who sing to the sunlight that shines through the drain above.

This video is from the film ‘Grandad’s Tooth’.
I received DYCP funding from @aceagrams in 2022 to transform my performance practice with Miss HerNia @misshernia into a 3D animation. This film brings together the Miss HerNia inception story and follows a lost tooth that travels through a magical and monstrous subterranean world, where it becomes the missing link in a mutant fat-creature’s plan to swallow and digest all of humanity.

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ in the Weston Studio is open until 3 November 2024.

Photos: Andy Keate

‘Miss HerNia’s boots’, 2024, mixed fabrics, latex, acrylic paint, varnish, PVC boots, gems, clothes hangers, metal frame, 120 x 70 x 70 cm by @lollyadams for @misshernia

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ in the Weston Studio @royalacademyarts is open until 3 November 2024.

Photo 1-2: Andy Keate
Photos 3-4: Lolly Adams

big thanks for the assistance from @lambdog1066

‘Miss HerNia’s boots’, 2024, mixed fabrics, latex, acrylic paint, varnish, PVC boots, gems, clothes hangers, metal frame, 120 x 70 x 70 cm by @lollyadams for @misshernia

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ in the Weston Studio @royalacademyarts is open until 3 November 2024.

Photo 1-2: Andy Keate
Photos 3-4: Lolly Adams

big thanks for the assistance from @lambdog1066

Insufferably Sweet! > opening Friday 1st November it’s gunna be adorable!! We made it through the first year alive 🫶🏼✨ let’s celebrate ✨
・・・
RA Schools Class of 2026 will be showing in ‘Insufferably Sweet’ at Sadie Coles HQ Shop.

Insuﬀerably Sweet oﬀers various extractions from eleven artists’ from the class of 2026, who have now completed their first year at the RA Schools. The show reflects a condensing of each artists’ process, rooted in the specificity of communal working and charged with emotional and imaginative resonance between studio and collective making.

Only a short walk away from their studios, the room adopts many guises, transposing between an index of style, a site of display, a melting pot for fusing collaboration, and even a vessel for retreat from explorative studio frustrations

PV: 1st November, 6-9PM
Sadie Coles HQ Shop
62 Kingly Street W1B 5QN

@djofraymakumbu @dwaynecoleman @franciscapinta @georgiammkerr @akafasiii @katrinacowling @lollyadams @mayajcampbell @mohammedadel.art @i_greca_ @zachariahriley

Insufferably Sweet! > opening Friday 1st November it’s gunna be adorable!! We made it through the first year alive 🫶🏼✨ let’s celebrate ✨
・・・
RA Schools Class of 2026 will be showing in ‘Insufferably Sweet’ at Sadie Coles HQ Shop.

Insuﬀerably Sweet oﬀers various extractions from eleven artists’ from the class of 2026, who have now completed their first year at the RA Schools. The show reflects a condensing of each artists’ process, rooted in the specificity of communal working and charged with emotional and imaginative resonance between studio and collective making.

Only a short walk away from their studios, the room adopts many guises, transposing between an index of style, a site of display, a melting pot for fusing collaboration, and even a vessel for retreat from explorative studio frustrations

PV: 1st November, 6-9PM
Sadie Coles HQ Shop
62 Kingly Street W1B 5QN

@djofraymakumbu @dwaynecoleman @franciscapinta @georgiammkerr @akafasiii @katrinacowling @lollyadams @mayajcampbell @mohammedadel.art @i_greca_ @zachariahriley

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ is on display in the Weston Studio until 3 November 2024.

RA Schools students Lolly Adams, Djofray Makumbu and James Sibley explore staging through methods of set building, costuming and moving image production.

‘An Alarm Clock Rings...’ draws upon ordinarily non-visible elements within each of the three artists’ practices, unveiling personal narratives and alter egos. A space for play, miniature figurines are endlessly reconfigured, animation cells are laboured over, costumes are embellished and hiding places can be occupied and explored. Presented here are fragments of the narrative vehicles in which each artist escapes across the causeway, towards finished work.

A proximity to ‘staging’ denotes a backstage area: the work, largely presented on exposed wooden plinths, finds its foundations in the realm of the theatrical. Duration, scale, character and (re)production - as conventional tools within narrative play and screen-writing - are reprogrammed to operate in favour of revelation over concealment. Here the seams are split and continue to widen, offering an escape through the back door.

The show features an exhibition text by Sally O’Reilly @manfredopenarms

Photography by Andy Keate.

@lollyadams
@djofraymakumbu
@james._.ess

‘An Alarm Clock Rings…’ is on display in the Weston Studio until 3 November 2024.

RA Schools students Lolly Adams, Djofray Makumbu and James Sibley explore staging through methods of set building, costuming and moving image production.

‘An Alarm Clock Rings...’ draws upon ordinarily non-visible elements within each of the three artists’ practices, unveiling personal narratives and alter egos. A space for play, miniature figurines are endlessly reconfigured, animation cells are laboured over, costumes are embellished and hiding places can be occupied and explored. Presented here are fragments of the narrative vehicles in which each artist escapes across the causeway, towards finished work.

A proximity to ‘staging’ denotes a backstage area: the work, largely presented on exposed wooden plinths, finds its foundations in the realm of the theatrical. Duration, scale, character and (re)production - as conventional tools within narrative play and screen-writing - are reprogrammed to operate in favour of revelation over concealment. Here the seams are split and continue to widen, offering an escape through the back door.

The show features an exhibition text by Sally O’Reilly @manfredopenarms

Photography by Andy Keate.

@lollyadams
@djofraymakumbu
@james._.ess

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