"I selected this image primarily due to its significance to the characters often overlooked in the theater: the outcasts and vagabond waifs of numerous productions throughout the stage’s history. Often the filler for the production (the background singers, and street extras), I wanted to elevate the role of these characters to the forefront, never the star but essential to the story. I have always related my paintings as being a stage in and of themselves, the curtains having just parted to reveal a scene where something is about to unfold... the colors and landscapes in this scene in particular remind me of the swamps and streams that once existed under the concrete of the Arsht Center."
—Hernan Bas