A migrant construction worker passed by here, and left traces which amount to a place. It is a site of energy, of drama yet serenity. The small painting in the middle provides a focal point; it depicts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise. From now on, they are migrants in the world of impermanence.

The piece which is based on the painting by Domenico Zampieri in the 1500's also has an abstract quality: it is an un dulatin loop, going from glaze to glaze, from God the Father, to Adam to Eve, to the snake to the lamb, the lion, the cherubs, etc.

The loop movement is also implied in the cycle of growth and decay. Mortar is oozing between bricks, and the walls that are being erected are already crumbling ruins before they are even finished.

The migrant worker left the mortar and tools behind as one more reminder of the movements that took place here. It is by moving inside and through the place that "it becomes space".*

Madeleine Hatz

November 26,2000

*) see Michel de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life