◇ After
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · Mel Stuart · Paramount (Gene Wilder as Wonka), 1971
The top hat and ginger curls stay, the face under them unchanged. Below that, a blue work shirt and a white van marked FREE CANDY with children's faces at the windows.
“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.