Others are just pure white abstractions, ephemeral designs that will eventually melt back into the sea.
That worked fine at the larger shelter in Bryant Park, but city inspectors wisely ruled the prospect out for these more experimental and ephemeral designs.
Mesmerised by the dynamism of developing markets, luxury brands are turning Europeans off by pushing up prices and churning out stylish but ephemeral designs, argues Ms Remy.
Less than a decade later, the way people use social media has been entirely changed by its mobile-only, ephemeral, wacky design.
The transformation of the ephemeral body designs into more permanent embroidery is referred to as "interculturation".
But those same tales of ephemeral scandal — designed as much as anything to increase tabloid newspaper sales whether in the public interest or not — could well be setting precedents with far broader consequences.
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The tradition of sand art originates from the sacred tradition of Tibetan sand painting, in which monks apply millions of grains of colored sand into intricate patterns, yielding an ephemeral artwork designed to ignite boundless compassion for all living things in the viewer.
As the visuals change, so does the character of the sculpture, speaking to the ephemeral and capricious design.
