COVENactivates

the city's monuments.

✦in honor of the rooms that were · the rooms that are · the rooms not yet built✦

1. ·1for the artists who waited in line and then made the line.
2. ·2in memory of every studio priced out of its neighborhood.
3. ·3for the makers who held the door for the next maker.
4. ·4in honor of the curators who never got the credit.
5. ·5for the rooms with names not yet written on them.
6. ·6in memory of the gathering that scattered. it counted.
7. ·7for the third place that hasn't been opened yet — it has a key.
8. ·8in honor of you, reading this, for showing up.

— engraved here so it doesn't have to be carved in stone yet.