Materials:  Pages of a hand-written book

Location: Denver International Airport

Artist: Brianna Martray

Intent of the Artist: 10,000 FOLDED PAPER CRANES 

Once upon a time, I wrote a novel.  It took me 8 years and upon completion a New York City Literary Agent asked for a copy.  I reread it again, decided it wasn't good enough and never sent it.  In 2006, I started folding the stacks of manuscript pages lying around my house into origami cranes.  Fast forward to the summer of 2010 when both my computer and my back up hard drive are stolen and the only finished copy of my novel lives in 10,000 folded paper cranes, the shadow of thousands of hours of work, the history of my creative journey, remnants of a former self.

Materials: Reclaimed plastic objects, painted aluminum, and steel armature, 
hardware, wire, cable ties.
Location: Japanese, Shinto
Artist: Sayaka Ganz
Intent of the Artist: Using possibly the cheapest material around—thrift store plastics that have already been used or trashed—Sayaka Kajita Ganz still manages to make pieces that look downright priceless (and sell for over US$ 12,500 each). Born in Yokohama, Japan, Sayaka explains that, "Japanese Shinto beliefs are such that all objects and organisms have spirits, and objects that are discarded before their time weep at night inside the trash bin... or so they teach children at many preschools." Whether truth or tale, the image stuck with Sayaka as she moved from country to country. “I had a strong desire to fit in".

matrials: carbon dioxide dry ice at -78.5 degrees Celsius, as well as naphthalene 
location: Art Los Angeles Contemporary

artist: judy chicago's
intent of the art: artist Judy Chicago re-staged her 1968 performance piece Disappearing Environments as Sublime Environment. Using thirty-seven tons of dry ice and red flares the performance was staged outside in a parking lot near Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar. No one knew how long it would take to melt, or when the ice would stop smoking. Apparently, it was still smoking on Saturday night, but by Sunday the installation had, for all practical purposes, “disappeared.”

According to the Palais de Tokyo, "The artist draws inspiration from medical textbooks, amongst others, and particularly from studies of physical pathologies such as tumors. Through a formal analogy, these outgrowths evoke the outermost layers of the bark of a common tree."