A curatorial prototype – composed of moveable index cards – first proposed itself in thinking through an exhibition of David Goldblatt's photographs. This culminated in Picture Theory: An interaction with the work of David Goldblatt. As Josh Ginsburg recalls:

"This exhibition deviates from the convention of presenting David's images bound by their original essays. Rather, the show uncouples images from their chronological and contextual sources and seeks unexpected relationships across decades and series. 

David spoke regularly of his desire to 'have new eyes' – to see beyond the bounds of his accrued knowledge and experience. Picture Theory is an attempt to bring 'new eyes' to Goldblatt’s oeuvre; offering space to wander through the photographs, as one would a landscape, seeking out resonances that might compel one to stop, to 'make a picture'."

The index-card device has since become a curatorial mechanism with which to set selected works free-floating, that they might propose novel interactions and associations with one another.