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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ENT Burning Art - Creating 2-storey high art and burning it! An internationally renowned artist from Lithuania, Vytautas Musteikis, works on his 2-storey high art piece, made of recycled materials at Selkirk Park, Selkirk, MB. Thursday. Working with him is, Chris Pancoe, of Anvil Tree, Founder of the International Competition - Warming Huts at the Forks. While creating his art Musteikis invited students from Selkirk junior high to teach them how to make sculptures from good ԯl Manitoba straw. When his work is completed he will set his art on fire as a ancient spiritual practice and to understand the life and art are ephemeral See Al Small's story. Nov 16th,, 2023