From the outset we see the need for a set of financial, administrative, and legal constructions to cover the contingencies of a century of technological and social change. Even in this regard the artwork seems to invoke an epic process, a poetic gesture, a procedure which is itself a test and measure of sustainability. We all like to count. If we stop to think about it we realise that there is no time without change and there is no change without memory, without history. And history begins with each of us counting.
Children do it.
Count and compare. Measure change and difference, and as such, duration. A large part of being human is deciding which things are worth sustaining and which things are not. A cause of anxiety or concern. Bear weight of, hold up, keep from falling or sinking.