From the light and airy galleries, let’s move on to the more earthly elements. Let’s touch the mud art. American artist Scott Wade creates his drawings on the windows of dirty cars. The gallery of his work is uninspiring, but still decided to post it because it is very original. I think most of us at least once in our lives have run a finger over a dusty car, leaving an uncomplicated pattern or inscription. And Scott went beyond the “classics” and got into it on a professional level. Texas dust helped. The hobby moved seamlessly from his family cars to his neighbors’ cars, and on to custom cars. It went all the way to promotional applications. Mitsubishi commissioned Scott to do a series of works on their new lineup of cars. The artwork included the price of a monthly payment when purchased on credit.

The dirty car drawings are original, but it’s not the artwork itself that I like more here, it’s the philosophy behind their creation. Their lifespan is very short. That said, the author still tries and spends from forty minutes to four hours on each of them. He doesn’t feel sorry for them. He does not cling to the “perfection” and uniqueness of his creations. They don’t hang on the wall at home, they’re not “super-valuable” in the archives. As an artist, Scott is free from the level of his art today. Tomorrow new works await him. And the day after tomorrow he will have to make even more perfect.

The fleetingness of life of these drawings on dirty cars is very reminiscent of fragments of the philosophy of ice sculpture, which is knowingly created by the authors for a couple of months. Such is life – there are no eternal forms. Everything created in this world will inevitably be destroyed by time and serve as material for subsequent life forms. And some artists don’t even try to prolong the life of their creations. Ice, snow, sand and today’s dust and dirt in the form of art works serve as another elegant reminder of the transience of life. A kind of silent reflection on why all this around is infinitely born and dies, and what is the meaning of Life…