Autumn landscape. A jacket in one hand, a farm tool in the other, a woman farm worker strode across mountain-surrounded farmland in one of the six miniature paintings on the base of the music box. If the image transcended the aura of another era, it was because of the way that this woman's solitary independence dominated the foreground.

Soon -- while Griff, with former teammates and flowing drinks, would commemorate a legendary Defensive End -- beginning in the courtyard of the Art Institute, Caydance would walk her own territory, meeting friends in art spaces along the way.

She was thinking that the coming change in her own life was echoed by changes in these spaces. This September, installed inside Capp Street Project (once represented by a photo of David Ireland laboring on the sidewalk outside), in Bill Viola's Sanctuary, viewers would walk through a forest of living, growing pine trees to reach Viola's video about the birth of his own son. Would this work have been exhibited in the San Francisco art world ten years ago? she wondered,

studio icon Once again, she wound up the music box. Listened.