0:00:18.606,0:00:20.020 [CATHERINE OPIE] Sometimes people are coming to the hospital 0:00:20.020,0:00:24.084 and they're camped out here in their loved one's room 0:00:24.084,0:00:26.168 for four or five days and 0:00:26.168,0:00:29.929 for them to be able to get up and walk around for a moment 0:00:29.929,0:00:33.145 while they're having some kind of test or medical procedure done 0:00:33.145,0:00:38.013 and engage with original work is really magical. 0:00:38.013,0:00:40.836 And also some people don't actually want to 0:00:40.836,0:00:42.806 go to a chapel in a hospital. 0:00:44.021,0:00:48.037 You know, you do need places that you're allowed to go 0:00:48.037,0:00:52.022 and have moments and thoughts and feelings that 0:00:52.022,0:00:57.497 aren't necessarily just within this one place of worship. 0:00:58.005,0:01:01.005 [JOANNE COHEN] We're looking for art that going to be engaging 0:01:01.005,0:01:04.036 where people really...I mean, you see them interacting with the art 0:01:04.036,0:01:06.005 and the engagement, it's palpable. 0:01:06.005,0:01:09.005 It's doing something--it's activating in some way. 0:01:09.005,0:01:11.004 Our mantra here is: 0:01:11.004,0:01:14.005 "Medicine cures you and art heals the spirit." 0:01:14.005,0:01:16.021 And we firmly believe that, that it's going to help you 0:01:16.021,0:01:20.037 get through whatever moment you might be encountering. 0:01:20.037,0:01:22.005 [OPIE] So this is the corridor 0:01:22.005,0:01:29.021 and the piece will be the full length of the corridor. 0:01:29.021,0:01:34.020 And then, one of the things that I actually loved upon my first visit here 0:01:34.020,0:01:39.037 was that you end with a fractured landscape with that roof. 0:01:39.037,0:01:41.005 And I thought that was really interesting, 0:01:41.005,0:01:43.005 and there was a moment of poetry for that-- 0:01:43.005,0:01:45.021 it fractures the landscape. 0:01:45.021,0:01:47.037 It creates this other kind of horizon line. 0:01:47.037,0:01:52.190 And that will end up being referenced of what's happening in here. 0:02:03.175,0:02:06.021 I'm hoping that if somebody is having a hard time 0:02:06.021,0:02:09.021 that they could come here and possibly sit and have this 0:02:09.021,0:02:15.255 kind of ethereal moment with the photographs. 0:02:33.717,0:02:38.072 My primary intention is--with this body of work, in making it-- 0:02:38.072,0:02:43.072 is that you could come here over a 20-year span of time 0:02:43.072,0:02:47.087 and the photographs will trigger the same thing that it would to you 0:02:47.087,0:02:50.180 driving through your old hometown. 0:02:51.980,0:02:54.426 [MAN] Is this Edgewater? 0:02:54.426,0:02:55.137 [OPIE] Yeah, that's Edgewater. 0:02:55.137,0:02:55.983 [LAUGHING] 0:02:55.983,0:02:56.614 You're right. 0:02:56.614,0:02:58.137 [MAN] And you're on the pier? 0:02:58.137,0:02:59.121 [OPIE] Yeah, I'm on the pier. 0:03:07.998,0:03:09.136 [MAN] This one is my favorite one. 0:03:09.136,0:03:10.121 [OPIE] I'm glad. 0:03:10.121,0:03:13.136 You guys are working here now, you get to live with them. 0:03:13.136,0:03:15.121 It'll be a permanent installation. 0:03:15.121,0:03:16.137 [MAN] Oh yeah, this is my hallway. 0:03:16.137,0:03:19.137 I was going clean it, but y'all was here, so... 0:03:19.137,0:03:20.121 [LAUGHING] 0:03:20.121,0:03:21.137 [OPIE] That's good! 0:03:30.214,0:03:34.237 Often, my work, I feel, only serves one aspect of 0:03:34.237,0:03:37.221 society, so to speak. 0:03:37.221,0:03:39.237 It's like, my work is expensive. 0:03:39.237,0:03:43.221 People who want to live with it, they have to pay a lot of money for it. 0:03:43.221,0:03:46.729 There's all of those realities that actually 0:03:46.729,0:03:48.829 bother me to a certain extent. 0:03:48.829,0:03:50.913 But there is also a place that, fundamentally, 0:03:50.913,0:03:53.170 in the core of my being, 0:03:53.170,0:03:57.980 that I believe art needs to be public. 0:04:02.980,0:04:05.337 I don't want this to be installed anywhere else. 0:04:05.337,0:04:08.337 I'm not going to be doing an exhibition beyond here, 0:04:08.337,0:04:12.337 so if people want to see this, then they have to come here to see it. 0:04:12.337,0:04:16.337 And so that's important to me, because it's conceived for this place, 0:04:16.337,0:04:20.337 it's being designed for this space specifically, 0:04:20.337,0:04:29.337 and if you want to experience it, you've got to come to Cleveland.