mr. eli reed. [applause] the one question i want to ask the one part that i didn't read was the impact of the seven years that he spent as the hospital orderly. >> i went to art school and i started working night classes as the orderly and i couldn't get into the day school. so they had me on the floor that she worked on which i didn't get at first and they were like the other family. so, all that began to help me see life in a different way. eventually i was working at school at night and that was the start of something looking at the patients and the people i worked with. it's why things work and why people do the things they do and also growing up and doing a lot of the things going on in the civil rights movement that were happening. imagine of the 60s and what's going on just so many things happening. if think of the wonderful people you meet, sometimes the terrible people can meet that are responsible and yet. i was driving past the church of my driver. it's in the places that you least expec

mr. eli reed. [applause] >> he -- eli you're going to tell the stories hip your photos. one question i want to ask of one part of your bio your resume didn't read, was the influence, the impact of the seven years you spent as a hospital orderly on your art. >> well, i went to art school and started working at the hospital when i started night classes as an orderly and i couldn't get into the day school. i made into it the day school the next year. anyway i think that does a lot. my mother passed away when i was 12 and was ill with cancer and i was taking care of her because my father had to work. so then working in a hospital, they had me on the floor where she worked on. which i didn't really get at first. i didn't get that. and they were like her family, the other family i didn't know about. so all that began to help me see life in a different way. i was working at night eventually working at night and going to school at day and that was the start of something. trying to maybe looking at patients and the people i worked with and how they dealt with things. helped point