The second ingredient in the romance of contemporary artists is Time: the takeover of the space of the Past inevitably assumed the presence there of huge reserves of time, dreaming and dozing in that space. Hence – melancholy and sentimentality, the characteristic romanticization of ruins. One tends to go numb – an effect characteristic of a holy place where the experience of time sharpens and seems to be reversed. Conservation of Time takes place with the help of visual organization of space. An artist does not rearrange anything, he works as a stage director of space, which has become an ideal matrix for his ideas. Since the categories of collective social consciousness no longer function in the holds of these abandoned ships and their futuristic and utopian origins have evaporated, the mechanisms of personal, individual memory – and fate – come into play. Remythologization of the past, which never has become the future, is taking place.