The work started from the weird coincidence of two 9/11s: 9/11/73, the coup d'etat in Chile which lead to a lot of human rights abuses afterwards, and 9/11/01 in the US, which I fear can lead to losing civil freedoms as well. The piece had an intimate part inside the gallery (Chashama, New York), though the sound installation was about something very serious (the losing of civil rights and liberties in the US after 9/11), then the piece evolved into the streets of Times Square, in a crowded saturday night, and the audience was following me. Then I stopped at the corner of 47th and Broadway (at the so-called Crossroads of the world) to write, with salt on the floor, "I AM". Then I stared at a security camera, which is broadcasting the images to the internet 24 hours a day (so virtually many potential people could watch me). Many passersby stopped and realized there was a camera all the time at such spot. The work was about my fear of this stage of the world, where you need a camera watching the others to stop feeling uneasy. I was using a T-shirt with the caption "I Am Afraid of Americans". Of course it was a very political statement in the context of Times Square, many people talk a lot about it...
The sound in the gallery included quotations from: Amnesty Int'l annual report, William F Schulz, Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff, James Ujaama (US Muslim activist first honoured in Seattle for his humanitarian work, then detained as terrorist suspect), Gil Scott-Heron (70's US protest singer), Kate Martin, District Judge Gladys Kessler, Stephen B. Levine, Hope Marsden (US human rights activist) and US President George W. Bush.