And beneath the resin you can see the painting's wooden stretcher in the form of a giant, negating X. Reality and artifice, words and images, construction and destruction … everything is in flux in the work of Sigmar Polke, and looking on its own is never enough.
A crucifixion is not only a reality but also symbolic of the destruction of everything that seems good and innocent.
"This would mean the total destruction of everything that has been here for nearly half a century," Mrs. Balligand said.
"What happened in these two years, as we see it now, is a complete destruction of everything we built".
"For millions of children here, the terror of airstrikes and shelling, and the destruction of everything around them has become a daily fact of life.
When pressed on what is to be done after the destruction of "everything," he says: "That already goes beyond our task.
While he foresaw the destruction of everything he valued in the city, he also saw that beyond the destruction, there was another sphere opening up, where creativity and new possibilities of social interaction might be born.
I then went through a stage of utter self-hatred and destruction – where everything I wrote was about how disgusting I was as a human being, and how much I hated the world and particularly me within the world.
The BBC is occasionally characterised in some newspapers as a dangerously pinko-liberal outfit dedicated to the destruction of everything that makes this country great – warm beer, fossil fuels, casual racism, that kind of thing.
Finally, Monbiot suggests that "to sit back and wait for what the Dark Mountain people believe will be civilisation's imminent collapse … is to conspire in the destruction of everything greens are supposed to value".
Under Mr. Sarkisyan the museum, in a prerevolutionary compound around the corner from the Kremlin, became a center of efforts to halt the destruction of everything from centuries-old mansions to modernist masterpieces and even the Central House of Artists, constructed under Leonid Brezhnev in the late Soviet era, a period that has few architectural defenders.
