“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed.
Today: Dying birds

Vincent Valdez and Adriana Corral, “Requiem,” 2019, clay, cast bronze, ash; dates hand carved into drywall. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
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No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also working on that idea. Furthermore, they are using notation very similar to yours. – Bruce J. MacLennan