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On Thursday, piles of dirt, concrete shards and other debris surrounded the property, with a bulldozer watching over.

Nearby, Yang Bao’s “Hyperspace,” a gold, mirrored pyramid accompanied by gleaming shards, nestled in a former lavender field, shimmers amid thyme, gingko, California poppies and native grasses, accompanied by haunting, and constantly mutating, music.

Artists break through with little shards of music and they might disappear or they might sell out your city’s basketball arena.

Atlas workers dismantled a makeshift wall of shipping containers between the scrap yard and school, which was intended to prevent sharp metal shards and other debris from flying onto the school yard.

To be fair, there are shards of plausibility in that narrative, as is generally true of effective propaganda.