In Tom Scutt's excellent design, chandeliers dangle and change height over a crumbling chateau-like space where the sparse objects – harpsichord, chaise longue, a stack of oil-painted canvases – feel in readiness for the removal men.
A river of flags flying over the tops of the buildings, below them the six-high stacks of oil drums, and the military observation posts.
Before Jeanne-Claude's death, she and Christo were at work on two longstanding projects: "Over the River," a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and "The Mastaba," a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or truncated rectangular pyramid, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.
Yet some people worry that it could slip back into its corrupt and violent ways once the oil begins to flow: witness other countries in the region, such as huge Nigeria and tiny Equatorial Guinea, where cliques of "big men" have stolen stacks of bounteous oil money while most of the people have been left to live in poverty.
This 40,000 barrel-a-day increase might not sound like much (unless you actually picture 40,000 leaky barrels of oil stacked up right in front of you) but to put it in perspective, when Enbridge's 6B pipeline ruptured in 2010 and filled the Kalamazoo River with Alberta crude, it was the worst on-land oil spill in American history.
Mr Ramos-Horta says Fretilin's over-cautious and insular government has let more than $1 billion of oil revenues stack up in its accounts, while a population of fewer than 1m still suffers widespread poverty, child malnutrition and unemployment.
For example, UAVs are being used to carry out aerial inspections of oil refinery flare stacks, fuel tanks, power lines and pipelines.
This do-it-yourself appetizer came in parts: two thin strips of smoky beef grilled with sesame oil, a stack of lettuce leaves, and mushy, delicious roasted garlic cloves; assembly was left to the diner.
The researchers collected samples of smoke from the stack of a ship burning bunker oil, from the end of the Scripps Pier in La Jolla, California, and from an unpolluted coastal area off Northern California.
Stacks of well-worn brushes and tubes of oil paint have the dignity of still lifes.
Easels stand in the corners, and jars of oil paints and brushes are stacked neatly on several tables, as if the artist might return at any moment.
