"Venice generally represents an ending rather than a beginning. So this might be the close of a five year cycle; after five years of more of the same, what comes next? One hundred years of shamans? Decades more of celebrations of diversity? Hopefully art will now be set free to move onto other topics; to itself be transformed by the imagination, by dreams. And, if we must stay inside of ourselves, we can at least hope for a more visionary period of cyborg experimentation with the limits of identity and humanity. There are some great lines LuYang once said about transitioning into an artwork in the metaverse:"