Interested in the word ‘participation’ I asked Simon to elaborate on ways in which the word can be interpreted and the value of the individual experience of the participator. He drew my attention to Suzanne Lacy’s rings of engagement, which in concentric circles transform the notion of different audiences into a diagram representing different groups’ level of interaction with a work of art. Lacy states that the ‘innermost circle represents those without whom the work could not exist’, the outermost circle being ‘audience of myth and memory’. I suppose, the question this poses (at least to me) is whether one could consider the perspective of ‘the audience of myth and memory’ as either part of the inner circle or a different diagramme completely, as although yes, the work could exist without their perspective, the work from their perspective could not exist without them.