Comment by Lio
12 hours ago
I remember Damien Hirst's response to people saying that anyone could have created his "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"[1].
He'd simply respond with "But you didn't, did you?".
I think that Hirst had a point.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_...
It's not like sharks haven't been preserved for display before, they just didn't call it art (barring counting taxidermy as an art form).
Then again, I'm also one of those people who thinks duct taping a banana to a wall is also not art.