 Hi, my name is Caitlin Cherry. I'm the ninth artist in Brooklyn Museum's raw-cooked series. My upcoming exhibition titled Hero Safe is located in the fourth floor contemporary galleries and also in the lobby under the brick arcade. It consists of three paintings and three sculptures that are based off of Leonardo da Vinci's War Machines and they'll be set to appear to be launching those paintings. The War Machines were all constructed in Hudson New York by my friend Ian Warren. My paintings usually start with the maquette. I use that to paint from live. I first start with an acrylic under painting and then paint over that with oil. For a while I've been working with this sort of gallum figure who's always constructed out of clay. I place them in different environments. They become sort of the main character of a majority of my paintings. For me as an artist I can employ them to sort of comment on different points in history. There's two installations in the fourth floor contemporary galleries that are facing towards this grand chandelier overlooking the Beaux Arts Court. I decided to choose that location because that chandelier sort of represents the heart of this museum and to have the catapult here to be launching towards that is kind of a representation of bringing art towards the center of an arts community. The reason why I sort of chose Leonardo da Vinci to hone in on with this exhibition is because I'm really inspired by the way he moved through his life as a man of multiple traits. He was a very accomplished painter but he also was an inventor and an engineer. At the same time as he was making beautiful creations he was also conceptualizing war machines. I was really attracted to his his biography in that sense.