This house-like icon is the viewer's 'golden temple'. It enshrines the aggregate of concepts each of us brings with us germane to home, community,and civilization. On both physical and metaphorical levels the house and its brilliant surface unites the spheres of man and nature. In resolving to navigate themaze of barriers, with the goal of reaching the lit house, the spectator symbolically confronts our labyrinthine impressions of nature, which up until now haveisolated us from it. With a view fixed upon the copper surface of the solitary icon one finds direction. In conclusion, it is during the exploration of this psychicboundary that one can approach a meaningful ecology. And as Greenberg concludes, "Upon completing the voyage, one finds spiritual completion withinthe house and the energy it emits."

RON ROCCO 1992

(Jeanne Greenberg quoted from the catalog for the exhibition Working in Brooklyn-Installations, The Brooklyn Museum, 1990)

First published in LEONARDO Magazine (The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) and M.I.T. Press Vol.26, No. 4 1993