The Baroness would, for example, fashion found objects into art, as in her piece Enduring Ornament (1913), a rusted industrial metal ring that she found on the street on her way to her wedding with the Baron (hence its optimistic title; ?g
The notion of mining industrial or everyday culture for material is also central to the Baroness’s practice, but the case of the Baroness-because of her capacity (and seemingly even desire) to lose control-makes an interesting contrast to that of Duchamp. 3.8).