Because every artwork is a statement about the nature of our existence, only ephemeral art is art. You have to draw the line somewhere.
How and why time has become a tool for artists working in a disturbingly fragile medium?
Everyday artists make art from the stuff of everyday life and therefore rejected by a wide audience.
Arthur Danto, Perishable art is about the ephemeral nature of being because time has an elegiac and mystical intensity
Nothing will last to the end of art.
Jean Michel Basquiat, Even transience of time is ephemeral
Mirror as metaphor in art
Physical and emotional effects converge in all images to suggest the transience of life.