Assignment: Provide an example of another artist who accepts impermanence, and explain if that artist was inspired by the natural environment or by some other phenomenon.
After reading the text over Skip Schukmann's work with the natural environment and impermanence, I began looking at other artist's work relating to impermanence. I think that this is an interesting way to work. I found work by Maria Velasco titled "Embracing Impermanence". This is a performance piece in which for a period of two weeks she will stencil words on the wall and erase them. The rubber remains from the eraser become the raw material which she then uses as her medium to create new stencils. The cyle repeats itself. I find this interesting because as an artist I become attatched to my work, and this is a different way of looking at the way in which you create a piece of work. To embrace impermanence seems to be a way of embracing whatever happens to a work of art and going with it, allowing it to take a new course and not necessarily being ruined. As stated in the text about Skip Schukmann's art, a viewer bumped an edge of his piece and it fell and he just created a new piece based off of the parts that had fallen. He did not consider that piece ruined, it just simply began to take a new course.
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