Kansitang P / Shutterstock.com This animation by Faraz is part of a series in which the artist creates on-the-go claymations. We get to see a little ball of clay transform into various shapes as the artist rides the subway and walks around the city. It looks like a magic trick, but behind the art is a massive amount of time, talent, and creativity. What makes the work stand out is how it blends performance with process. Instead of presenting a finished animation, Faraz turns the act of making into the subject itself. The city becomes both studio and stage, and everyday movement, waiting, commuting, and walking, gets folded into the creative process. There's also something interesting about how temporary it all is. The clay figures are constantly being reshaped or erased, never fully fixed in one form for long. That constant transformation mirrors the pace of the environments he's working in, where everything is always in motion, and nothing really stays still for long.…