Snowman by Keith Tyson
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"Snowmen are the first way in which children come across the idea of human vanitas and impermanence. We live under the myth that if we produce things, they're going to last. When in fact, everything we make is like a snowman -- it's all going to melt in the sun eventually."
~ Keith Tyson
Reinventing the snowman (Guardian Unlimited)
Turner Prize profile (2002): Keith Tyson
Wikipedia: Keith Tyson
Images from Tyson's Large Field Array (at Pace Wildenstein, September-October 2007)
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