Entertaining professional extraordinaire, Rebecca Gardner recently debuted her latest artistic idea, the Sugarplum Pop-Up on the St. Regis resort in New York. Compulsive gamblers play with a set of signifiers – the dots on a die, the swimsuit on a card, the symbols on a slot machine – which in themselves are utterly meaningless. They ask of these signifiers a query – what am I? what is my future?” – and they stake their being on the answer that those signifiers give. And when the answer is just not what they wanted, they ante up; and when it’s what they wished, they ante up again, because this wrestle is timeless,…