In remembering all those times that we have seen “You Are Here”, and in seeing the exaggerated scale of the installation, we recognize that we’re standing on the map: be that of the city, county, state, national, as well as the globe, in addition to the timeline of humanity. In that moment of awareness we can understand that here is a place and a time, not better nor worse, but nevertheless unlike any other. In this recognition, the work brings an awareness of the need for building relationships with all others, through an empathetic understanding of those who are not – or not yet – “here”.