| The architecture of the building really affected me because it's so high off the ground and so much of the background is all those building reaching to the sky. Also, the whole context of being on Broadway in a very Latino neighborhood is so important to me. I started to look for symbols and artifacts from pre-Columbian America. The arms that are reaching to the sky are based on Peruvian gold work. The Aztec calendar contains text by Octavio Paz about time and place. It's trying to bring some poetry to the idea of being at home and to exile too at the same time. In the middle of a commercial L.A. landscape you have something that is talking about connecting us culturally and historically to our past and present.
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