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Ok let me get this straight melted water in a plastic bottle is art ?????
Thank goodness for that thief to save us from our own stupidity
Thief 'Drinks' Work of Art
An artist’s latest work - a bottle of melted Antarctic ice - may have been stolen and drunk by a thirsty thief.
Artist Wayne Hill filled a two-litre clear plastic bottle with melted ice to highlight global warming.
But the artwork, valued at £42,500, went missing while on display at a literary festival, reports the Scotsman.
Entitled Weapon of Mass Destruction, it vanished halfway through the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.
Mr Hill said: “It looked like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was on a plinth, labelled, described and in the programme of the whole festival.
“It was very, very clear what it was - a work of art.”
The work uses water taken from the threatened west Antarctic ice sheet, which is currently melting at the rate of 250 cubic kilometres a year, he said.
Mr Hill added: “Nobody has any idea what has happened to it. It was there and then it was gone.”
Thank goodness for that thief to save us from our own stupidityThief 'Drinks' Work of Art
An artist’s latest work - a bottle of melted Antarctic ice - may have been stolen and drunk by a thirsty thief.
Artist Wayne Hill filled a two-litre clear plastic bottle with melted ice to highlight global warming.
But the artwork, valued at £42,500, went missing while on display at a literary festival, reports the Scotsman.
Entitled Weapon of Mass Destruction, it vanished halfway through the Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.
Mr Hill said: “It looked like an ordinary bottle of water, but it was on a plinth, labelled, described and in the programme of the whole festival.
“It was very, very clear what it was - a work of art.”
The work uses water taken from the threatened west Antarctic ice sheet, which is currently melting at the rate of 250 cubic kilometres a year, he said.
Mr Hill added: “Nobody has any idea what has happened to it. It was there and then it was gone.”
