Find his mother in the United States, and he did it all alone. And you spent five years essentially recreating his story and reporting this book. And i have to tell you that the reporting in this book is extraordinary. Thank you. Hinojosa i mean, you actually. You meet this little boy when hes 15 years old on the u. S. mexico border, and what makes you decide to say, im going to tell the story of enrique . Well, i wanted to tell more broadly the story of these millions of women who have come to the United States from mexico and Central America. You know, around the country, we know these women. They clean our homes, they clean our offices, they take care of our children. Among latinos, they are women in our families. Theyve come here because they face this horrible choice of, do i stay in my country, not be able to feed my kids more than once a twice a day, not see them study past the third grade, or do i pull myself away from them and come north so that i can offer them a better life
Krzysztof. Why this idea of projecting making your art so public . What is it that you want to communicate . You want to make it free and accessible to everyone, but the message that youre trying to say to people is what with your work . Well, since the late 80s, im employing in my work video that is motion and sound, and possibility of recording and editing and transmitting voices voice and gesture of a person, people. So from that time on, i would think that the reason is to turn those of whom we know nothing or who are hidden invisible residents of our cities into projectors so they can project themselves on a large scale and open up to large number of people. And learn, taking advantage of this kind of project, how to find words and metaphors and expressions to convey often quite difficult experiences. Hinojosa but the fact that youre seeing people kind of talking themselves gives it. Theres a real kind of authenticity about it, but you put people talking about themselves talking a
This community. And you started writing that when you were in college. Yeah. Hinojosa so did you ever imagine, yeah, its going to end up on broadway, or was that just like an illusion . Oh, i imagined it laughing i mean, you wouldnt write it if you didnt feel like it was. It was worth something, but i imagined it in the way that you imagine being a jedi when you are three years old, you know . Its in the realm of possibility, and sure, maybe one day. But you know, i just. I knew that i wanted to write, i knew that i wasnt good at anything else, and i just. I knew there werent enough musicals to keep me employed as a latino actor if i wanted to go into theater. And i. And i just sort of started writing everything id always wanted to see in a musical, musically speaking. Just hip hop music and latin music and all the stuff id sort of grown up with. Hinojosa and you were able to translate that. What i love is that you had these images of broadway, and youre able to take hip hop and salsa,