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Have you ever wondered what’d happen to your garden if you let things go for awhile? How long it would take for the weeds and critters to take over? Well, dear reader, wonder no longer! Alan Weisman has written a strangely alluring book, The World Without Us Without giving away Weisman’s surprising prognosis for the survival of human culture I can tell you… • That sculptors working with traditional materials own the word “archival.” • Artwork made out of ceramic or bronze has the best chance of lasting through millennia. • Ceramics are a lot like fossils. “Unless you smash them, ceramics are virtually indestructable.” • Paintings are fragile. “Unless they’re hanging in 4000 year old pyramids with zero moisture, within a few hundred years of neglect, paintings on canvas will be a dead issue. Hmm… | |
