◇ After
Pac-Man · Toru Iwatani · Namco, 1980
Four thugs in the four ghost colours, red at the front, then magenta, cyan and orange, standing over a yellow body gone limp with an X for an eye. The caption prices a wrong turn at four.
“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.