The artist behind the statue said it was designed to be melted but they didn't expect it to melt in this way.
A wax statue of former President Abraham Lincoln melted amid a scorching heat wave in the nation's capital over the weekend, leaving the artist responsible for the sculpture surprised.The statue, which sits outside Garrison Elementary, a northwest Washington, D.C. school, was seen in photos circulating online to not be handling the heat very well, as the region dealt with record-breaking temperatures.
Williams said the statue had melted a second time despite their best efforts to 'build safeguards' and that they were still working out what to do next with the installation.'Something in the universe bigger than me has now melted this sculpture twice, and I think it was important that these were unplanned public events vs staged gallery or museum performances,' they told Newsweek.
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