Restoring the whole reef to Lady Elliot Island's immaculate state will be a bigger challenge.
After opening the article with the Disneyland metaphor, Gibson cites an observation attributed to Laurie Anderson that virtual reality "would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it" in relation to the immaculate state of the Changi Airtropolis, Singapore's international airport.
In less than 20 minutes, the phone was restored to its immaculate original state.
In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and stated: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.'".
The 1962 house was one of the celebrated modernist Richard Neutra's key late works, in a state of immaculate preservation.
It would be a brilliant feat to retain these columns as they are and weave the new world around them, but the architect's words stand in sharp contrast to the images on display – in which everything has been patched-up to a state of immaculate whiteness.
In short, an idea was born in Jason Polan's head perfect, and when exposed to the cruel inadequacies of existence, it turned unrecognizably imperfect, leaving Polan with just one way to restore the thing to its original state of immaculate beauty: Finish it.
A print that goes into the world takes its lumps; some state between the immaculate and utter ruin is an accurate representation of the experience that moviegoers had in the age of film projection.
Others are threatened including his commissions for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in his adopted state of Vermont and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City.
Whichever way you look in this immaculate, air-conditioned building, you see state-of-the-art equipment.
