Once the gameboard was affixed to the wall with the sliding plastic tabs that she used for hanging unframed drawings, the desire to see an artwork take shape began to drive her search for the key to the book object.

In the process of the drawing and painting the gameboard pieces -- as was sometimes the case in her creative practice -- deeper meaning of the content of each icon was emerging.

Indeed, as she was drawing the shadows of each key in the group of keys in which the gold key occurred, places where she had seen such an assortment became clearer. One was her Boston Grandmother’s "key drawer" in which keys from many decades resided, (and the uses of some of these keys, her Grandmother could no longer identify).

arrow Another memory had not previously arisen. It was the lost and found drawer in a Princeton department store.