Transformative Moments

Transformative Moments was developed in partnership with the Ella McQueen Residential Center, a New York State juvenile detention center in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The mural, installed in the Centers reception room, greets residents with a message of personal and collective transformation. Figures climb a twisting staircase, assisting one another as they make their way up the steps. Keys fall from the sky, symbolizing new opportunities. A maze represents the interconnectedness of one's psyche, life experience, and the challenges of life itself. Aphorisms inscribed throughout the mural read "Life is a Circle." "We are each responsible for our own actions" and "there was never a night that had no mourn."