I painted this because I felt like the play
was about life, you know?
And life is full of color.
And we each get to come along
and we add our own color
to the painting. You know?
And even though it's not very big, the painting,
you sort of have to figure that
it goes on forever, you know,
in each direction.
So, like, to infinity, you know?
'Cause that's kind of like life, right?
And it's really crazy,
if you think about it, isn't it,
that, a hundred years ago,
some guy that I never met
came to this country with a suitcase.
He has a son, who has a son, who has me.
So, at first, when I was painting,
I was thinking, you know, maybe up here,
that was that guy's part of the painting and then,
you know, down here, that's my part of the painting.
And then I started to think,
well, what if we're all in the painting, everywhere?
And what if we're in the painting before we're born?
What if we're in it after we die?
And these colors that we keep adding,
what if they just keep getting added on top of one another, until eventually we're not even different color anymore?
We're just...one thing.
One painting.
I want you to stand out. I want all of you to be as different as you can possibly be. In all the best ways.