ABSTRACT

We have almost come to the end of our tour. There is one last room that will house our latest installation. You are more than welcome to take a quick look. As we said, it is not quite finished. The tableau has not had the benefit of time going about its quiet, painstaking work of conferring full universality. Such things can only happen when a significant distance emerges between the work and its future reception, such a passage has a cleansing aspect. It erases certain contemporary elements that may have made the work meaningful for its original audience. Once such contemporary trappings recede, we learn what the work really has to say or not say to subsequent generations. Keep in mind this tableau is, after all, not yet three decades old; a veritable infant when compared to the other works we have viewed.