The development of a visual language led inevitably to a new kind of artistic creation: the independent work of visual art. The artists of the First Canvas, now fluent in their new language, began to create pieces that were not accompaniments to a dance, but complete statements in and of themselves. These were not performances, but sustained projections, luminous compositions of light and color that could be contemplated at length. The community, in a collective act of recognition, created a new kind of social space for these works: the First Exhibition. It was a designated area where these silent, luminous poems were displayed, a gallery of pure light. The Children of the Symbol would gather here, not to watch a performance, but to engage in a different kind of aesthetic experience: the quiet contemplation of a work of visual art. The First Exhibition was a major cultural innovation, a testament to the growing sophistication of their artistic sensibilities, and a sign that the Age of Silence was becoming a true and multifaceted Age of Art.