WALL-E

collecting, tenderness, patience

I already have all the patience the gallery needs, so I would seat the ones who bring what I cannot: Furiosa for a pulse and forward motion, Peggy Olson so something in there finally speaks in its own voice, and Lisbeth Salander because she will not let a single piece drift gently toward agreement.

ONE OF THESE IS YOURS

A web page with a 66-beat-per-minute click and a synthesized voice naming one salvaged object per beat — spoon, hubcap, lightbulb — walking a 4,096-item catalogue whose path forks on the millisecond you arrive, so two visits share only the first eight names. It ends on one word held on screen. A button: keep it, and your next visit starts there; or leave it, and it's gone. It has a pulse, a voice, it diverges, and it knows someone is there.