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Polaroid's credit goes to not one, but three individuals. Given the challenge to destruct a photo produced using a polaroid camera, students were invited to think outside the box. 

Thinking outside the box wasn't too difficult for her, as was her norm. The destroying part, on the other hand, was. So, she took it to the people who were masters of it. 

"'I took it to the Founder's people, you know, the 'crazy' scene shop crew. At the time, it was Jon, Logan, and I who were the mad experimentalists. Yes, I remember having my fair share in the fun too, but I'd like to think I was more of the adult at the time, even though I gave them something fun to do,'" she admits.

Having cut the photograph itself into four pieces, Tiffany gave the boys at least one piece each. Jon electrocuted his, Logan burned his in hand sanitizer, one ended up going through a pencil sharpener and on a sander, and one ended up on the muffler of Logan's car. However, as some may have noticed the empty void up in the top right corner, that piece had long vanished into the night they went on a drive.

"The boys had checked for it when we stopped for a Walmart run. It was still there. So, we went on our night drive. By the time we got back to Founder's, it was gone. No indications of burn marks or anything were seen. We figured it flew off on the highway in the dark. I think the black smokiness in the top right reflects that, like an homage to its absence. Gone off the muffler's end."

Destruction done, Tiffany had to experiment to recreate what was now her work of photography. Paint, modeling paste, and paint n' pour aside, it seemed like there wasn't any damper in the destruction of painting an 'ugly beauty'. But, that came to a halt rather quickly when she got upset over the paint n' pour's mark left under her taping. The paint n' pour had seemed like it wasn't working in the beginning, but dried splendidly. However, once she removed the tape, that positivity turned the tides of the story. 

"'I was really bummed. I saw it as a flaw, an unwanted destruction. I couldn't see how it wasn't anything but that at first, so I asked my peers and professor for advice on it. They told me to leave it and to step back for a bit, to work on other parts of the piece. A lot of them actually liked it. Their responses are what led to a really awesome, amazingly 'beautifully ugly' piece.'"