“The cave paintings exist because the caves were toilets”. Lee Lozano. One of the earliest and most verifiable definitions of humanity is our ability to control fire and use it to cook. It’s one of the most important turning points in our evolutionary history, and though we cannot see the fire that Homo Erectus saw, we can still see what she burnt and this material transformation continues to communicate over the millennia. In contrast, the most ephemeral definition of humanity might be our ability to make a joke. Defined by an improvised logic, forged from an ever changing consensus, and almost impossible to preserve against the passing of time, the ability to make a joke constitutes a fundamental aspect of what makes us human. As we slide into the Anthropocene, there is a consensus that the only thing which is certain is change. Preserving something for eternity inevitably requires a stoppage, a suspension in time, but if it is to continue to communicate it must also acknowledge the potential for change. The one-use grill with its improvised third leg and ever undercooked offerings, suspends the temporal for eternity and becomes a monument for humanity’s hilarious and eternal instability.