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All art is transient*

*that's tue that is

Fashionfiend, you're welcome. I'm so glad you've got something out of it. My sand mandala article is here for those interested in knowing more about the artwork.

Ah! Fireworks - I don't have that one on my list of transient art to come, although I do have gourmet food.

Familychoice, you are right. Even the Sphinx has proven transient over the centuries, and eventually all art will erode from their original form, no matter how we try to preserve it. I suppose we can only be grateful that we can capture them digitally now, and preserve them in a different medium.

a few years ago, for a women's art event, I made a series of over 50 small handbuilt clay vessels. Over-working the clay and intentionally working in air pockets and etc.
Knowing what the lions share of the outcoume would be, I let them dry for quite a number of weeks. Eventually planned and did a very primative pit firing of them for a day and a night.

As the fire heated up, the explosions were spectacular! ! I used the shards, halved, cracked and the remaining three that survived the explosive firing as one of my exhibits.....
Although far from a safe enterprise, it was the journey toward the explosions and the ACT of the firing that was the art....the shards and cracked pieces were merely the aftermath. Proof that something had happened.

I still love that art.

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Wow! That sounds awesome!

Has anyone else made art that was 'purpose-built" to be destroyed, distressed or otherwise "ruined" for creative reasons?
(things such as - paintings/drawings, sculptures, pottery, installations, etc??)
or something destroyed as part of a performance art piece?

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