McGuire admits the concept is in its infancy.
Ultimately, the proof of the concept is in delivery.
But in the bicentenary of the great man's birth, the tree-of-life concept is in trouble.
Overall, the concept is in line with a current style of presenting art in a kind of gift-shop environment, which keeps the eye moving and attention shifting.
For Nick Swarbrick, head teacher of Bartelmas Nursery, the strength of the forest school concept is in its potential to instil confidence at a very young age.
Bruce Cole, editor and publisher of Edible San Francisco, thinks the concept is in for the long haul, because, he said, "everyone is paying attention to where food comes from".
Their basic concept is, in the end, inspired: that the technology of surveillance may produce a poetry of form, and that there is art to the way we move through the world, if we are just alert enough to it.
The alternative emerging as the frontrunner is some sort of "John Lewis" model, in which licence fee payers become owners of the corporation – although the thinking on this concept is in the early stages.
Their concept is in the investigation of the material in their construction: a basic 4-by-8-foot sheet of plywood is cut into thin strips, then glued, sanded and laminated into a minimal but beautifully striated surface.
They finished on 15 points apiece and, with a double countback, the judges' "individual preference" (what a landmine that concept is in this tournament) made the Russian the winner.
Today, the concept is in wide disrepute, with opponents effectively branding it "cap and tax," and Tea Party followers using it as a symbol of much of what they say is wrong with Washington.
