And for the most part, it's a vibrant, colorful, you know, it just looks like another building, and you wouldn't know that you're looking at that unless you knew. And then once you know, it's undoable. You can't undo what you know.
And I used symbolism in that piece. I used, you know, the photos of Pompeii where the people were frozen in ash in an instant. And the couple that are clinging together and holding their child, and they were found in the ash like that.
So I put that couple sitting on the tracks in front of this building to represent the idea that they had no idea what they were facing going into those gates. They had no idea that that would be the last time they see the outside world. It was something I had to express, but I didn't know how to express it.
You know what I mean? And for the teachers, they said, you are treading on something that is just not talked about. We don't talk about these things. We don't express these things.
And I challenged them and said, that's why I did it. It's because nobody wants to talk about the ugly truth of what happened there. And right, wrong, or indifferent.
You know, I've gone full circle several times about the incidents that happened in Europe. But at the same time, felt obligated to do this piece. And for some reason, I am unwilling to accept mediocrity simply because it's an expectation that, you know, you can't hit certain subjects.
Well, if there's a subject off limits, I might try to find a way to express it. You know what I mean? And I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings or it triggers or brings emotion in you. But that's the job I have.