The point is, if they ever said too much about what went into this moment, it wouldn’t be as evocative, would it? As it is, you or I can take any number of opinions we have about the Confederate flag, about politics’ place in art, about Opal and Nev’s careers separately, about, um… the victim….” He paused; I nodded for him to continue. “And we can project those ideas onto it.”

