“Earlier this year, news reports that announced Felix Gonzalez-Torres as the American representative for the Venice Biennale mentioned that the centerpiece sculpture originated as a drawing for Western Washington University. ‘I’ve been intrigued as to how people are interpreting this,’ said Western museum director Sarah Clark-Langager. ‘The way it’s being talked about is that he was a finalist and he made it to the jurying process. That’s not true’.”