The six-foot-tall statue, a wax replica by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, was meant to draw attention to the Civil War era and its aftermath.
  • @talEnglish
    14•4 days ago

    But melting like soft-serve ice cream on a scorching summer day was not something its creator imagined would happen. Williams, a professor of art at the University of Richmond, understood the wax to have a melting point well above highs recorded in the District’s sultriest summers.

    “The idea was that the ambient temperature, unless it got to 140 degrees, wouldn’t melt the sculpture,” Williams said. “But yeah, I’m not sure that the company ever tried just putting a block of it outside for days in a hundred plus degree weather.”

    We’re back to “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”.