Tyler: “That’s an important technicality. It would have rendered us ineligible for nearly every solo show Carey was in, every prize she won, all of it. We were breaking the rules, and the older we got, the more important those rules seemed to be. When we were young it didn’t matter, but when we were older…it began to eat away at us.”

Marlin: “We met with a lawyer and talked about how to unravel it. The problem was that we’d sold all this work in her name, and if the value of the work plummeted, we’d be exposed to that liability. And of course, it was illegal.”

Tyler: “We decided to at least start making our own money. We started to give in to the market. We were going to kind of ease out of it.”

The film cut to Charles Eliot, standing in Eliot House. “There was no one else we wanted for this house. We asked her over to drinks and she agreed right away. We were thrilled.”

Jack: “We were floored. How were we supposed to get in there if she was the only one who could be in the space? I mean, she was not—Maria did not have the skill set that Carey Logan had. I don’t want to say she wasn’t an artist. But she was a performance artist.”

Marlin: “That was the beginning of the end.”

Tyler, now smoking. “The house took five years. It was supposed to take two. She and I broke up. She took up with Charles. His marriage ended. She thought they were going to run away together. Then—he married Max, who was staying with us that summer. Maria was devastated.”

Max went rigid.

Jes: “By the time the house was done—work we had not agreed to, for which we received no credit, that had to be done through an increasingly demanding intermediary—we, Pine City, were ready to retire Carey Logan.”

Jack: “The vote, among the four of us, was not unanimous. Marlin thought it was the wrong thing to do.”

Marlin, looking frustrated: “I envisioned it working out poorly. That’s all I can say. I was outvoted.”

Tyler: “Carey was going to simply cease to make new artworks—she would fade into the distance. At first it would be a long vacation, and then rehab and a romance in Thailand, or whatever. We would pay her for five more years to do nothing but acknowledge she was Carey Logan and make zero artwork.”

Marlin: “She agreed to it pretty reluctantly.”