from now, what did you do in new orleans' darkest hours, i wanted to have an answer. >> you talk about the esthetic. i think for you as an artist. that's really a critical part of this, you have a bit of art imitating life going on here, right? starting in tremay where the city is working to recover. >> it is art imitating life. that's the role of life. what the thoughts are to the individual, where you reflect on who you are, where you've been. where you hope to go. that's the forum of art. we reflect on where we are. that's something we grew up with in pontchartrain park. we were given a baton from that moses legacy where african-americans didn't have the access to affordable homes during segregation. because of their march for social justice, we were able to create a mayberry that was able to send so many of my generation out into the world and become successful men and women. when i came back to new orleans, i knew i wanted to create that. it was our responsibility to create that. to those much is given, much is