Nora Atkinson

Because your brain lights up as you're looking at all of these things.

And you put this over here and all of a sudden it transforms what the piece is about.

So...

I think it's just probably very similar to film.

It's all about this sort of emotional storyline.

And one of the beauties, of course, of a museum similar to film is that you're bringing people through it typically all together.

There's a group of people who were walking through this and having this multiplicity in that room that are sharing that experience and the awe and the way one person will feel

point to something and it brings others into that experience.

And it's one of the biggest joys I have putting together exhibitions is watching people walk through them.

And something that touches this person might not be the same thing that touches someone else, but they bring each other along on that story.

Yeah.

And then that humanism is messy and people bring their own lives to it.

That's right.

There's a whole nother overlay that you never expected.

My favorite thing actually is always opening an exhibition because after weeks and weeks of, you know, well, you know, years putting together a show, weeks of installing it in the galleries, you're kind of sick of looking at all of it and it doesn't register any longer.

And then the first people walk in and you get the wonder on their faces.

Some of those mistakes end up being the kind of gems in the end product.

We're imperfect.

All right.

Well, thank you so much.