The wall surrounding one of San Francisco Xavier University’s campuses is covered with murals, most of which are political in nature. I use one of those murals as a background for this image of a student who reads as she walks to class. The mural conveys an emphatic symbol of the power of communication as an agent of change. A loud voice of the “common man,” symbolizing free speech, thunders towards top-hatted symbols of the “establishment.” This wall is speaking to all of us. Yet in my interpretive photograph, the woman walking with papers in her hand seems to hear or see none of it. She takes free speech for granted, and remains solely concerned with her own priorities and goals.