(gentle music) - Which I wanted to celebrate the labor of the women in the family, and they were all beautiful but very sturdy women.

And I say, how could I do this, a celebration of them, but also you need to stay in front and in awe, respect then.

- When you enter a gallery with Magda's work in it, you can't help but to slow down and to really look carefully, to really behold what you're seeing.

- My heritage and the mixing and different point of origins of my people are very important to my work.

Color is very important.

Very early on as a very young individual, I was aware of the beauty and the richness and the complexity of that.

So I put attention early about how could I bring all this information, all this rich cultural heritage into a content and materiality for my work.

What is the physicality of memory?

How do we enter the discourse of contemporary art language on my own terms.

I'm trying to find ways to tell the story in a physical material form that relate to the narrative in a very interesting way.

For me, those very particular point of origin has forced me to create language that I didn't know that it was there.

For instance, I start asking my relative, how do you remember the town, the peace history of people who were no heroes is the first sculpture made out of conversations.

- Magda does believe in the power of art and the power of beauty.

The power, she loves to say, often of radical love to transform all of us and our larger community.

- That is precise what I have been trying to do with my entire work because I think this is my voice, this is my time.

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