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-[Hank] This is nice.

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-[Rujeko] Mm-hm.

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So are these negatives all[br]your grandfather's photographs?

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-Yeah, and I haven't[br]seen them, actually.

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It's kind of[br]awesome just to, like,

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open up a box and...

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find these things.

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These...

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This is one of the[br]first shoots I was ever on.

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-[Rujeko] Oh, wow.

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-[Hank] These are photographs[br]from my mom's archive.

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This is a picture I've[br]used a lot in my work.

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-[Rujeko]Mm-hm.

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-[Hank] They're being[br]baptized in the pool.

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-You see the horns here and...

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-[Rujeko] Mm-hm.

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-[Hank] This woman here.

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Look, this is so powerful.

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-[Rujeko] Mm-hm.

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-The two things that I remember[br]people saying to me as early as

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three or four years old are[br]"You ask too many questions"

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and "You're not supposed[br]to stare at people."

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[chuckling] Most of my work is[br]some combination of the two.

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Photography was a[br]reason to stare.

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All of my work is[br]about framing and context,

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and about how, depending[br]on where you're standing,

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it really shapes your[br]perspective of the truth,

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of reality, and[br]what's important.

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♪♪♪

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Along with photography, I have[br]to work in different mediums.

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♪♪♪

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I have to try different ways to[br]look at something that we might

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think that we've already[br]looked at a thousand times.

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♪arpeggiated synth music♪

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I was reading Roland[br]Barthes' book 'Camera Lucida,'

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where he talks[br]about the punctum.

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His perspective of the punctum[br]is the thing that pierces you,

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the thing that sticks[br]with you in the photograph.

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When I look at this photograph[br]of a Harlem Globetrotter

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standing in front of[br]the Statue of Liberty,

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the punctum for me was this arm.

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♪♪♪

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I like to balance the[br]spectacle element of sports

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with the context of[br]history and politics.

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During my research, I was[br]reading Ernest Cole's landmark book

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'House of Bondage.'

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He, as a black photographer,[br]traveled all over South Africa

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documenting the[br]horrors of apartheid,

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and then smuggled these[br]images out of the country.

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♪♪♪

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The specific image of a lineup[br]of nude miners with their arms

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up being strip-searched[br]really struck me.

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I had seen it many times[br]before, but I recognized,

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with a critical eye, that I felt[br]often guilty looking at this

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picture because I was[br]always gawking at their bodies.

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My looking at it was[br]reinforcing the oppression.

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♪♪♪

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I wanted to remake that[br]image as a sculpture,

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so I titled it Raise Up.

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I want to give viewers a chance[br]to walk around and look up and

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look over,

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to just try to look at[br]these men with dignity.

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♪♪♪

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Just about six months[br]after I made that sculpture,

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halfway across the world[br]in Ferguson, Missouri,

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the phrase "Hands Up,[br]Don't Shoot" became popular

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after the murder of Mike Brown.

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-[crowd] [chanting][br]Hands up, don't shoot!

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-[Hank VO] When I finally[br]exhibited this work in the

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United States,

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people called it "the[br]Hands Up, Don't Shoot piece."

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♪♪♪

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I see everything as connected,[br]so if I'm making work about

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coal miners or Ferguson

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or basketball,

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frankly, a lot of the bodies are[br]connected through this history

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of oppression.

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-[Hank] Zoom in, and then[br]you can just cycle through the

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pages.

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Mm-hm.

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I'm so glad that we chose the[br]3D-scan real hands for this

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instead of digitally-made hands.

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-[Sam Giarratani] I wanna[br]show you the finger.

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They take the 3D print, and[br]then they coat it with this wax,

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so that it can[br]stick to the ceramic.

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And that level of texture is[br]gonna come across in the bronze.

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-[Rujeko] Yes, that is crazy.

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-[Sam] Yeah.

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-[Rujeko] They look good.

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-And so, do you know[br]what that piece is?

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-[Sam] No, this is[br]actually just a sample.

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-[Rujeko] Sample[br]for, like, the patina?

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-[Sam] Yeah.

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-[Hank] This is so nuts[br]imagining how they broke the

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sculpture into 650 pieces...

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-[Sam] Mm-hm.

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-[Will] Mm-hm.

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-[Hank] And how many[br]people are working on this one.

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-[Sam] Yeah, it's[br]all hands on deck.

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-The whole foundry.

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-[Rujeko] Great.

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-Yeah, we break ground on[br]Coretta Scott King's birthday,

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and then...

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it debuts on MLK Day.

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-[Rujeko] Mm-hm.

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-And so the eight[br]months in between,

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everything's gotta get done.

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-[Hank VO] A few years ago, I[br]was invited to submit a proposal

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for the Boston Common –

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an installation in memorial[br]to Coretta Scott King

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and Martin Luther King.

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I didn't really know at the time[br]that two of the most prominent

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civil rights leaders from the[br]South actually met and fell in

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love in Boston.

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The fact that their love[br]would actually ripple out

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in so many ways from that first[br]meeting was really profound

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for me.

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I wanted to make a sculpture[br]that was inspired by their

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intimacy that's[br]larger than life.

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I found a picture of[br]them at the award ceremony

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for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The punctum of[br]the photograph --

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the part that I was struck by --

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was the way that their arms[br]were wrapped around each other.

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His weight was resting on her.

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The fact that we speak so much[br]about Martin Luther King without

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acknowledging or celebrating[br]Coretta Scott King was something

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that was important to me, as[br]well as everyone involved.

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There was tension, you know,[br]in me and also my collaborators

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about what does it mean to not[br]include their faces and other

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body parts?

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But really, when I think about[br]Martin Luther King and

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Coretta Scott King, I have a feeling.

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It's not the pictures I've[br]seen, it's a sense in my heart.

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There is a poetry in these[br]interlocking arms and this

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sculpture that people will go[br]inside of

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and replicate that gesture.

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We wanted the sculpture to[br]actually get to the heart of it.

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-[Dr. Deborah Willis]:We always talk about[br]the hidden

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archive of Black history that's

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not hidden but it's there,[br]and it's really the...

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the researcher who has[br]to reimagine the archive.

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When I think about, you[br]know, Aunt Cora's quilts...

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-[Hank] I wonder if that's part[br]of the inspiration for me --

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just a lot of the work that[br]I do is always very much in

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conversation subconsciously[br]with the work you're doing.

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-[Deb VO] I'm Deb Willis.

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I'm a photographer, a professor.

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I teach at New York University[br]Tisch School of the Arts,

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chair of the[br]photography program there.

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♪ethereal synth music♪

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I'm a writer about photography.

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♪♪♪

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As a child, Hank was[br]fascinated with photographs.

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He would go into the[br]photographic album,

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ask my mother, "Why is[br]this photograph in color?

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And why is this in[br]black and white?"

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And he would change the[br]pages to tell his own story.

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At that time, I worked for the[br]Schomburg Center of Research in

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Black Culture as a[br]photo specialist/archivist.

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After school,

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I would pick him[br]up during my break,

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take him to work with me.

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He always wanted to know,

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"Why do you have photographs[br]of people we don't know...

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[laughs] in our house?"

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And I said, "Because we[br]need to know the stories

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of the people in the image."

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-[Hank VO] As a child,[br]with my mother's work,

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I didn't really[br]understand what she was doing.

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Now, I understand that her[br]work, along with many others',

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was really critical in building[br]and expanding the field of

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photography, and[br]especially Black photography.

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Looking at the way that[br]Hank grew up in a professional

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archive of a library but[br]also in the family archive

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made him curious about how to[br]create a narrative about Black life.

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♪erratic synth music♪

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What I took from[br]photography was incredible

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knowledge and experience of how[br]to look critically at the world,

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at myself.

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Because I've always been[br]reaching to the past and trying

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to connect with it,

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sometimes the closest[br]I could get to history

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is the photographic document.

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♪ethereal synth music♪

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There's something really[br]just beautiful about actually

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beginning to see the scale now[br]that there is over 500 pieces

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welded together.

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It's like, it's happening!

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I would estimate that there[br]are at least a thousand people

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who've had to work on it[br]in some way, shape, or form.

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♪♪♪

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Engineers, architects,[br]and the community boards...

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and then getting it[br]shipped across the country.

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♪sparse synth music♪

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The sculpture is[br]about the Kings,

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but it also is[br]really imbued with

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the care, consideration,[br]passion, and talent of so many

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other people.

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-[Roberto Morales VO] We're working[br]on something historic.

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Martin Luther King, he[br]talked for the people like me.

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♪uplifting synth music♪

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-[Sam] We wanted to make sure[br]that we were really thinking

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about all different kinds[br]of people

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coming into the sculpture.

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We wanted to make sure[br]wheelchairs can go inside.

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We want people to[br]come up and touch,

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so the patina lends[br]itself to being touched.

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-[Jonathan] The story of Martin and[br]Coretta was inspirational,

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and also looking at the other 65[br]heroes of the local

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Boston Civil Rights Movement,

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honoring those[br]names in the plaza,

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and pushing forward a new[br]narrative of what it means to be

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in the city of Boston.

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-[crowd] Ten,[br]nine, eight, seven,

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six, five, four, three,

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two, one!

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[cheers and applause]

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♪tender synth music♪

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-[Hank VO] There are so many[br]monuments to heroes of war,

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and there are not very many[br]to heroes of nonviolence.

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I'd like to believe that this is[br]just the beginning of a new way

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of thinking about how[br]public space can be viewed,

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and how we reflect on the past[br]with care and concern for the future.

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I want to make work that really[br]gives people a sense of pride

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and connection, that's going to[br]mean something to people beyond

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my circle, beyond my world,[br]and beyond this lifetime.

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♪ ethereal ambient music ♪