This is a relatively small working model, depicting the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC, which is on display in Atlanta’s King Historic Site visitor’s center. The actual memorial to Dr. King in Washington stands almost 30 feet high. This model is about six feet high, and is placed in front of a window overlooking the plaza in front of the visitor’s center. I waited until two visitors were framed within that window, and then made this image to symbolize the meaning of this memorial itself. The figure of Dr. King glows in golden tones as it rises from a base of stone. It was designed to embody the phrase “Out of a mountain of despair, A stone of hope…” taken from King’s famous “I have a dream” speech in 1963. Behind King, two silhouetted symbolic figures pass in soft focus within a pair of windows. One of them is approaching, while the other is departing. Behind them is a softly focused mural, floating above a washed out plaza. The mural represents King’s unfinished dream, while I saw the figures in the windows as symbolizing “opposites” – a society where people should be free to make their own choices and move towards their own goals and purposes. The pose of Dr. King himself, arms folded and confident, reinforces that very idea.