Article: Now you see it, then you won't.(Higher Education)(Dragonfly formation celebrates artistic collaboration, impermanence)

Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

Like clouds against a summer-blue sky or a dew-coated flower, Daniel Dancer's art is here and then it's gone.

It was here Friday, on a lawn at Lane Community College where more than 100 people and a pile of old clothes were momentarily transformed into a brilliant, quarter-acre dragonfly. And after 10 minutes it was just a lawn again.

"One lesson I think humans need to grasp is impermanence," said Dancer, a Hood River artist who paints with people and uses grass as a canvas. "One of the secrets to living a happy life is to embrace impermanence and live every single moment as if it is our last, because we ...

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