The expectation isn't to be "clean" but to be transparent.
This is where the metaphor breaks down; transparency will clean the laundry and it's fine if there is laundry. (Does that even make sense?)
Admittedly, I'm a bit late to the thread and haven't read through the previous 17 pages.
The issue here isn't the airing of dirty laundry, but the fact that there is dirty laundry.
It is not. I see a tree with seed pods in the beginning. Or even the horizon of a world where life will begin from afar.
mit also frames the performance space quite nicely. And, wait for the ballad.