◇ After
I Want YOU for U.S. Army · James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
The finger still points, but he is slumped in a chair with the striped hat in his lap. Goatee, red bow tie, striped trousers, and the block caps beneath ask for something else now.
“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.