In the art world, it is fostered by an incessant rain of numbers in the media whenever an art star comes to its attention. Graffiti Artists Turn on Banksy: The Rise of Art Hate Anthony Haden-Guest August 6, 2014
For the music genre, see Sludge metal. Sludge. Sludge is a semi-solid slurry and can be produced as sewage sludge from wastewater treatment processes or as a settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment and numerous other industrial processes.
1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; bond servant. 2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person. 3. a drudge: a housekeeping slave. 4. a mechanism under control of and repeating the actions of a similar mechanism. Compare master (def. 17).