inherent vice metaphor, maybe

[Mark Kohut]

I just came from an art gallery crawl visiting one new
French artist's exhibits--because he wrote of 'projecting a world"
which meant ALSO showing his work through a projector.....

But the neatest was a work that needed a helper to "perform", which
one could watch straight or with the 'action' blown up a bit 
through said projector onto a screen..

The work was some kind of wet, black harder-than-sand-like substance (with silver specks)......helper did not knwo what the substance was......
which, when shaped into a sphere, 'fell' apart, fell as if in slow motion----but faster than mud or dough.......................

Yes, I know it's just me, but it looked like a perfect symbol of some major
meanings of inherent vice....when perfectly shaped yet inevitably to come apart slowly....