Even more intriguing was that an everyday man wearing glasses stood facing the sculpture.

Like giant candles, both slowly burned to the ground, melting minute by minute.

On Fischer’s website, you could find photos by Stefan Altenburger that show the amazing progression.

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By capturing this dramatic melting, Fischer makes us think about the inevitable passage of time.

It will haunt me for a long time.

It is a beautiful, funny, frightening emblem of time’s fatal arrow.

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