I'm always amazed how much Skylar's play qualifies as "an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way."
In his Passagenwerk Walter Benjamin argues that the distinction we make between the allegorist -- who makes everything mean something else -- and the collector -- who sorts according to abstract principles of likeness -- conceals an underlying similarity. Both remake the world of things in their own image. And the redemption they bring about -- rescuing things from the prison of their mute materiality -- is always already subjective.
I'm glad Skylar understands this at such a young age. The mind outstrips its capacity for expression. But it catches up sooner in the mediations of allegory. Play on.
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