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Two years after the completion of Can't Help Myself, it came to a permanent halt in 2019. The death was not due to hydraulics or the loss of too much fluid, as Can't Help Myself was completely programmed, ran on electricity, and powered off every night by museum staff. The artwork was programmed to perpetually squeegee the "blood-like" fluid seeping from its inner core, as a Sisyphean task, but not as a life necessity. The death of Can't Help Myself was completely subject to the decision of the artists, and in 2019 they decided to enter the gallery space and unplug their creation.

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