Pictures and video of the statue, that have gone viral after hitting social media, capture the sculpture of the former president slumped in into his chair.
, which is located outside Garrison Elementary in Washington, D.C., melted as temperatures hit triple digits last weekend, according to multiple media outlets.of the statue, that have since gone viral after hitting social media, capture the sculpture of the former president slumped in into his chair.
The organization also mentioned that the congealing point – where it begins to harden or melt – of the wax used in the statue is 140 degrees. Moving forward, the organization added that they can’t “guarantee he’ll be sitting up straight for the months ahead, but who really will be?” “I always joked that when the climate got worse, and we were living in weather hot enough to melt these sculptures, that this work would then become environmental art. I did not expect for that day to be this past weekend,” the artist said, per
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