To me Ted Arison is larger than life, which is why I chose to make the sculpture one and one half times life-size. Because Ted Arison has touched so many people's lives, it seemed obvious that I needed to create an object large enough to allow people to touch him back. It is not intended as a fragile object to be locked away in a glass case, but rather as a strong, active reminder of the kind of spirit that it took to found NFAA.