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A viral video purportedly showing a stunning kinetic water sculpture in Japan -- a head positioned horizontally with gushing water forming its hair -- was viewed more than 50 million times within two months of its being posted to Facebook in October 2018: This video is often presented as capturing a remarkable piece of water sculpture on display in Japan. However, this clip actually features a piece of digital art created by Chad Knight. Knight posted a still image of his artwork to his Instagram page in September 2018, along with a number of tags such as #surrealart #conceptart #digitalart and #3d to inform viewers they were looking at digitally created artwork. Knight must have caught wind of the rumors holding that his sculpture was physically located in Japan, because when he shared an animated version of his work (the animation was created by Instagram user mattattack426), he specified in the caption that this artwork was not in Japan: Knight gave some insight into his work in an interview with Monsieur Marcel:
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