The Rosetta Stone

An old burnt and scarred cutting board sits in a wooden box covered with a rusty oven grate. Mounted on top of the stone is a clear marble, a plastic toy arm raised in Seig Heil salute, a small rock, a broken shell, and a metal symbol of the sun The text, in a child’s handwriting reads "from where I came no one could tell the things I'd do when I grew up-blood anger hate death -turning myself inside out to cleanse the world of pain: sun sea earth stone, I was too long left alone". The words “myself” and “the world” are written on moveable scrabble pieces on the backs of which are respectively the letters “i” and “u”. These words are interchangeable not only because some of us destroy ourselves and some of us destroy others, but because “myself” and “the world” are ultimately one