When the first snowflake hits the ground, everything transforms.
Jorge Drexler is the kind of songwriter who cheerfully explained, near the end of his concert at Town Hall on Tuesday, that he had based a song on the laws of conservation of matter and energy: "Toda Se Transforma" ("Everything Transforms").
All of a sudden the hurricane came, and everything was transformed.
The military pass through, and the tents, flags, banners, billboards – everything is transformed into rubbish.
When power arrives so too do a fridge, a cooker, a sound system, a television, and everything is transformed.
In a telling moment, Ríos declares that Flaubert "is proof that in literature nothing is really begun and nothing ended, that everything is transformed and continued".
But the ingenious collections that both designers showed under their own labels might have been inspired by Lavoisier's famous aphorism: "Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed".
There is in his poetry a kind of quest, and from the moment his words are voiced everything is transformed.
When everything is transformed or reduced to information, does it affect how we experience our world and ourselves?
Universal Everything has transformed the Sydney Opera House into a "Living Mural," as part of Vivid Sydney, held in Australia from May 22 to June 8 , 2015
