... and how you live and work in the city, and maybe what the city has taught you that nowhere else could.

Yeah.

Los Angeles, I've been here all my life.

I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena, which was kind of, like, 10, 15 minutes on the freeway from downtown.

And then I moved away and been in all parts of the east side of Los Angeles.

It's all I know, and I always kind of- Felt that I belong here, and I felt very at, uh, ease here.

So I never really felt like when friends were leaving after s- you know, college or something like that to New York or the East Coast or other places, I always kind of hunkered down and tried to, like...

I think that a lot of your work, it, it invites viewers to slow down and to reconsider assumptions, right? About neighborhoods, about people, about history, and, and I'm wondering what role empathy plays in your practice.