In the weeks preceding Prabakar Visvanath's abishekam ritual at MOA, museum
staff negotiated with one another the purpose and consequences of carrying out this ritual for the conservation of the bronze Vishnu figure. Curator Karen Duffek compiled excerpts of the email correspondence between herself, Anthony Shelton (MOA director), Heidi Sweirenga (MOA conservator), and Stephen Inglis (consulting curator), in order to symbolize the institutional "back story" behind the ritual.