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• The meaning and content of the work (what is it about? what does/did the artist try to tell us, in your view? what do you, as a viewer, think about this?)

Experimental and often transient character of materials shapes Michel Blazys’ works. By employing various organic matters, the artist encourages following their natural processes of change, through stages of growth, death and decay. The artist conveys a message by the way of the foam, to show how the growing and dissolving, becoming and fading form a closed cycle, a state of permanent change. Also, by employing readily available objects in the work, trash bins, I think the artist is conveying an idea about our inevitable certainty contaminated by consumerism in which are society is absorbed. The success of the work not only lies as a cultural aesthetic but also as an economical one; the artist was able to strip away all the nonessentials to reveal the essence of the idea, to convey the message on consumption. Furthermore, the title (Foam Fountain) also suggests to me an exploitation of an over consuming capitalistic society and the never ending cycle of consumer waste.