. >> i had an opportunity to be in horn lake, mississippi this year this summer i was at a hotel with my family. jim crow was gone. this was at a time there was a little league tournament and children were playing with children of all races the accommodations were integrated. i had an occasion to drive further to the delta and i stopped in a diner and the most epifet was used this woman was born 1965. in her 40's. and i wondered what i was seeing. i wonder through your lenses if you could comment on that. things were better, progress had been made but on one level this woman had not heard the story. >> i'm not speaking for all black people here, actually that's i have tremendous hope and tremendous dismay at the same time. it's the constant place i live because it's not gone. we have made tremendous progress and you see something like that and it's not an anomaly it's there. it will be there for generations i believe. and you think it's died out and you see it coming back and people that are young. you see it in people in their 20's sometimes. and i don't really have a great light to

lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we