Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Future past glory
By Liet Heringa, Maarten van Kalsbeek
What happens when a lion explodes into pure filigree? "Future Past Glory" answers with a stainless-steel beast unraveling into lace-like shards, part Baroque ornament, part digital glitch, frozen mid-dissolution on the lawn.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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