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even though I had been thinking about doing processions and had been making many sketches of what it would be like, but it was only after seeing one seeing a grand procession in Tucson Arizona at the old Mission Son Javier del bach. And it was such a

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rich experience. It was at night and seeing all the native people marching in the procession with candles and torches and dancers and costumes and they were people from Mexico, from Arizona from New Mexico. And it was such a grand experience that right away I said, I'm

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going to do my own procession and I had my idea right away And then uh I started painting and I spent 14 months painting it. But the work, it's very different from the painting. I made many changes. So it's like I revisited it and I took

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it to another place. The perspective from the first artwork that I painted versus this new one was very different. I wanted to talk about how when I did that in 1980 many of those drawings and scenes became the, the eventually became other artworks. This is the

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fishermen are the great catch and I've done that many times. There's a big mural mosaic mural at the Concordia University in Irvine that they based it on this. Then here's the loaves and fishes which I created into a sarah graph. But I revisited again. And that

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was the challenge was to try to make even these very tiny figures to have them have like a resolution of a very fine um miniature and here's even the Lazarus, I've got the Lazarus story which I showed you and to take away the stone and then

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the Dream of Jacob which I've used before. But the main one here is the David and Goliath right here, which became the beginning of my other, the one that I did as the sarah graph as you look at all the figures as they're in the procession

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there with candles and with musical instruments. And in the original one it was more like a catholic um procession, but I decided to make it more like an ecumenical procession. So instead of monstrous, I put the processional cross with the grapes and we which represent the

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Eucharist and also I put more women in the march to help bring it more to to today where there's more inclusion.