◇ After
Dick and Jane readers · Scott, Foresman & Co. , via Frank Kozik's poster idiom
Two children out of a 1950s primer skip hand in hand through a flowered meadow, red-striped shirt, red dress and hair bow. A leering grotesque stands between them, in the flat outlines and block type of the man being mourned.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
◇ Piece Room
No owners on the platform yet. The room is waiting for the first.