weeks: the statue got gradually thinner, less & less realistic, until it looked quite modern. The whole process was preserved on film by a photographer who, from the windows of the Writers' Union, took pictures daily. They document a gorgeous experiment in pop art, or maximal [minimal] art, or whatever. Svec, however, took his life when he saw how his realistic Goliath was changing slowly, step by step, into a Giacometti-like monster.