earth from Brasília was ordered by the artist to be transported to the gallery
he intentionally didn’t want to visit the modernist city
to preserve a modernist fantasy from the heft of reality
this earth will stay here, witnessing.
when the exhibition is over, the earth will be shipped to a village in Mount Lebanon
and will integrate into a garden that belongs to the artist’s family
earth will be calling for earth,
modernity will infiltrate the earth
as if nothing has changed
or as if something has slightly changed