Jefrë

Thanks for having me here today.

You know, I think for me, as we get into it, like my life story, you know, I think for me, it's always about understanding, you know, legacy.

Right.

And.

As a creator, can I create something here that will outlive me?

And some things that I do are necessarily about... As an artist, you try to do things that are about you and your story.

But I think for me, it's really this...

opportunity to kind of create legacy through celebrating other people and other cities and other cultures, not about me.

And I think that as an artist, sometimes we forget that, you know, the art should come from you, but if you're trying to share it with the world, you should bring parts of the world to you so that you can interpret on ways that they can experience it for them to create memories for lifetimes.

I think so.

I think I'm always been interested in using my talents and my gifts to help others.

I'm more of a giver, whether it's through creation or organization or helping.

I'm sort of the guy that always is like trying to get people together, whether it's through friends or family and organizing these experiences.

And so instead of getting friends and families together, I'm getting cities and nations together to create icons or moments that they can identify with their own culture and their own sort of history to create their own memories as part of it.

You know, and I think...

You know, if you look at these last couple centuries, we haven't built anything of significance in terms of something that has meaning and purpose.

That's not a building, right?

So when I say Statue of Liberty, Arc de Triomphe, the being now...

Eiffel Tower I don't have to tell you what city it is and so a lot of these things have been created have been gifts to cities you know like the Eiffel Tower was for the World's Fair and you know obviously the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France but

People these days are like, well, how can I build these things and get an ROI from it?