Transient art

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

There was a program on BBC4 last night about The Snow Show. Basically, a group of architects and artists have converged on Lapland and built huge, well, 'collaborative installations' is how their website describes it, out of snow and ice. So many beautiful pieces, all of which will crack and change and melt and slowly fade away to nothingness.

It reminded me of a passage in William Horwood's The Stonor Eagles (which if you haven't read, you should) where the main character, an artist, sculpts an eagle and leaves it high on a cliff, whence it will inevitably fall - and soon - into the sea, totally self destructing as it does so.