The salient conceptual underpinnings of Reliquary have less to do with its

ostensible subject matter than with the very idea of exploring a world that has

 been fabricated at will and from scratch--an equivocal territory that is not merely

described by the artist but constructed in a negotiable collaboration between

 artist and viewer.  Indeed, these are not simply indistinct representations of

a world that would be rendered more familiar if only the focus were better.

  Rather, the absence of an expectant descriptive syntax is a fundamental

property of this world, in much the same way that the absence of linear

narrative is a fundamental property of a dream.