When Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan tasked me with creating a memorial for our city’s residents who could not have funerals, my first thought was Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who is waging a valiant fight against the #Covid-19 pandemic. I knew that, whatever we did, people could not gather. So I planned a funeral. And I planned it for 1,500 families as if I were planning it for one. Thus, the city hosted 15 funeral processions past 907 photo billboards to give families a chance to say good-bye to loved ones who did not get the home-goings they deserved. The installation, which was the largest public art in the city’s history, was covered by media and foundations around the world. And it all was the result of a constituent asking the mayor for a memorial, and the mayor saying: “Make it so.”