Tim throws an ice block in the river

Tim’s first instinct is to clarify the definition of ‘disappeared’. Alex declines to specify whether the ice block must be melted, indicating that it is up to Tim to decide how to complete the task’s brief.

Tim then decides he’s going to make the ice block disappear by throwing it into the nearby river.

After an initial failure, he manages to get the block into a wheelbarrow, which he uses to transport it to the river bank.

After his attempt to tip the block down the bank fails, he has to climb over the fence and kick it down further himself.

He then has to pick the ice block back up in order to carry it to the water’s edge, where he kisses it before lobbing it into the water.

Alex informs him that he has not yet stopped the clock, since he can still see the ice block bobbing around in the river.

Tim keeps insisting that the block has ‘gone’, and is ‘art of the river’, while Alex, from his higher vantage point on the bank, keeps replying that no, actually, he can still see it.

Eventually, Alex concedes that the block has disappeared, presumably since the river had washed it out of sight around a bend.

He stops the clock at 13 minutes and 40 seconds.

Back in the studio, Greg argues that the block would have still been visible for quite some time, as it floated down the river, and so had not, in fact, disappeared.

As a result, Greg places Tim last in the task.

(Written by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: Karl Craven)