From the 20th Century presented, in the Weston Art Gallery’s street-level space, a set of three black stone monoliths (shadows) along with three white plaster copies (ghosts) that approximate the size of grave markers. Such monuments—made neither as tools for the hand nor as shelter for the body—mark an origin for western sculpture. I am not a stone carver, but here use traditional methods to materialize a question: “What is the object of sculpture now?” Other works, featured in the downstairs gallery, consider a number of significant 20th Century cultural events including: the invention of the “readymade” (1913); Einstein’s “Theory of General Relativity” (1915); and “The Voting Rights Act” of 1965. As different from the stone and plaster objects as these pieces might be, they likewise entertain notions of origin and temporality—of the past as legacy for the future, and a future already become the past. MICHAEL MERCIL Related articles and writings Sculpture. “Itinerary: Socrates Sculpture Park.” (October 2007) p. 17 ARTWORK