amy: and the arch? >> it was a symbol for american progress, american kind during spirit. saint loses on the border of the mecca and frontier at the time of the lewis and clarkditions and support in the arch is a celebration of that and to celebrate st. louis in american history. i recognize there's another side of the story, that one were you can read that the celebration of manifest destiny as a celebration of imperial and colonial empowerment. i wanted to bring that narrative to my project. amy: finally, sharifa rhodes-pitts, what being here in venice with all that is taking place in the united states that you're both deeply involved with, mean? >> well, one thing that comes to .ind to me, the connections at the moment that we're dealing with black lives matter and the violence against black people and brown people in the united sings, europe is a sparing incredible dust expensing thousands of black people here, too, and after venice will be going down to the center of the migration where people in the east and africa come through in order to arrive at europe. this perilous state of -- of people worldwide that a been subjugated to white for missy and capi