I climbed to the highest gallery in the rotunda to link an arc of contemporary high school students standing in the gallery just below me to the architecture of their past. The arc of students becomes a symbol of the fluid movement of history itself, as, one by one, they flow out of the gallery towards their own future. Other students are meanwhile moving past the great seal of the state that anchors the image on the first floor. It is a story of passage, generation after generation.