 My name is Heather Hart and I'm the fourth artist in the raw-cooked series at the Brooklyn Museum. And we are sitting in front of my piece, the Eastern Oracle, in the canter rotunda on the fifth floor. The Eastern Oracle is a rooftop sitting in the middle of the rotunda. We first brought in lumber and trusses, so it was built from scratch, just like traditional house framing. First it was a skeleton of two by fours and then we put the sheathing on which kind of stabilizes everything and makes a good base for the shingling and then the siding and the shingles come and the paint and everything. Inside there is a special kind of shrine hearth thing that you can sit in front of and also a replica of a mirror in the Egyptian gallery and that acts as the center of the Oracle. Eastern Oracle references the skank houses that are in the collection on the fourth floor. There are actual houses that were taken from Brooklyn and put inside of the museum and you look up and the rooftop is kind of cut off in the ceiling of the museum. So essentially my piece is an extension of the skank houses downstairs on the fourth floor. One of the concepts of the Eastern Oracle is the idea of forefatherness. It's a form or a process that's handed down through generations and so the shrine, the idea of oracles and even the method of building a rooftop is something that's passed down through generations. When people come to the Eastern Oracle they can climb on top of the rooftop or they can go underneath and underneath they'll find the actual shrine, the oracle itself where you can take a piece of gold leaf that's offered and press it to the oracle in exchange for a wish or a prayer. And during the run of the show we'll have public programming, activities, special things going on each month around the roof so I hope that they can come.