Andrew Levitas

As one does, Ryder would have as well.

And doing that and having fun with those toys.

And so it eventually became these large scale photographic sculptures where I could put multiple images on and really tell a narrative story that as an object, it could look beautiful.

So you could, you know, a 10 year old could look at it and be like, that's really just nice looking.

But equally, I could push more.

I don't know, uh, uncomfortable messaging on the work in a way that you didn't have to just stare at that.

You didn't have to feel upset about it.

You know, I I'd made a, an easy one to explain is I, I did a film about, um, mercury pollution, that one actually.

And, uh,

And a methylmercury molecule, it's sort of like the big ball part.

And then there's two little ones and then one at the top or however it would go.

But if you frame it that way and it sort of looks like a pregnant woman.

Right.

And so when women, the reason that I don't know when you had your kids pregnant.

Danielle, but when my wife, for our 10-year-old, the doctor said to my wife, you can have certain kinds of fish once a week.

There's certain things you can eat every day.

There's certain things you can't have ever, like can't have tuna or deep sea fish.

By the time we had our second child two years later, it was like no fish, right?

Part of that is that methylmercury, when you eat it, when you ingest it, if you're pregnant, it goes through your body, but the placenta pulls it out of, and all heavy metals, pulls it out of your body and puts it into the fetus.

These children were being born horribly deformed.