impermanent

Without moral transformation, political changes to laws and leaders would be impermanent and vulnerable to backsliding.

Los Angeles, like its residents, is impermanent, always shape-shifting, always on the verge of becoming something else.

And he wrote the piece because he felt like so many things on the internet are impermanent, right?

The city, like its residents, is impermanent, always shape-shifting, always on the verge of becoming something else.

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.