Paint that kept movingSourced
The paint was meant to sag for months.
Years later, it was still sticky.
British artist Alexis Harding uses paints with incompatible properties so gravity can shift a painting's surface. His 2003 work Quartet was intended to sag over about six months, yet a conservation study recorded that its surface was still sticky in 2014.
A finished painting
can still be changing.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-01