Excerpted from The New York Times article "The Doorman Cometh" by Jesse McKinley
       
 

       
      ...Karlis Rekevics, a 40-year-old sculptor who works in giant slabs of cast plaster, picked up a sledgehammer and prepared to store his work in the only way he saw possible: in little, tiny pieces. "I'm a very unprecious artist," Mr. Rekevics said, before smashing his multi-ton sculpture to bits. "And I wanted to go out with a bang.