• tal@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    But melting like soft-serve ice cream on a scorching summer day was not something its creator imagined would happen. Williams, a professor of art at the University of Richmond, understood the wax to have a melting point well above highs recorded in the District’s sultriest summers.

    “The idea was that the ambient temperature, unless it got to 140 degrees, wouldn’t melt the sculpture,” Williams said. “But yeah, I’m not sure that the company ever tried just putting a block of it outside for days in a hundred plus degree weather.”

    We’re back to “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”.

  • 242@lemmy.cafe
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    5 months ago

    Well, regardless of what the artist intended the piece to be about it’s now about climate change.

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    5 months ago

    The sculpture in question:

    It’s like the sort of thing they would show in a Looney Tunes cartoon to show how hot it was in D.C.