Aikshrees Kanduraja

It's that no credentialed reporter will be able to make artwork that hangs on the walls of the Capitol.

Is this the first time you're hearing that?

Yeah.

It was a four to one vote.

How does that make you feel?

Kind of sad.

According to a statement from the Standing Committee, they were worried about what precedent it would set, what conflicts of interests hanging his painting could cause.

And Pablo hadn't gotten permission from the event organizers to put his painting into their event.

Icarus, son of Daedalus, soaring over the aisle, was enthralled by his own new ability.

He couldn't help wanting to go higher.

Pablo, son of Luis, didn't want to only stay in the back of the press conference with the other scribes.

Couldn't this event, to honor Frederick Douglass, also honor Pablo too?

Maybe if he'd asked permission, gone through channels, this all might have worked out differently.

I floated that idea by Pablo.

Yeah.

But I still think this was the best way.

Even when you're thinking about it now, reflecting on it?

Yeah, because the humility could not possibly have created that scenario to begin with.

At every point along the way, it was driven by ego.

A lot of it was ego.