 This is a statement that we feel is mandatory right now. We're going into a very tumultuous four years. We already are completely polarized and divided, and we want to be at the forefront of a conversation that starts to close that chasm. So we want to use this blood for something bigger and create something that actually touches people and inspires them to kind of look at something from a different perspective. We're here at the Samuel Freeman Gallery in Los Angeles where the artist's collective In the Client is teamed up with Ilma Gore to paint a blood mural. We caught up with them earlier this week to ask them what they're doing and what they hope to accomplish. We're in the Samuel Freeman Arts Gallery in Los Angeles painting a massive political art piece with human blood. Rise Up the Young Blood is a, not just a collaboration between Ilma and Ilma Gore, but it's also a collaboration with activists, artists, graffiti writers, poets, musicians. All these people have come together to give their blood, which is everything they've got. This is of a group of Americans sewing the American flag based off of Betsy Ross's painting, a famous painting of her and a group of women actually sewing the first flag. The different figures in the painting, the white Trump supporter, the Black Lives Matter, the Native American, Middle Eastern immigrants, whatever you see in there, they're meant to expose stereotypes. When you see any one of the figures and you sympathize with one, you're angry at another, that's showing you your own biases. What I believe that you should see in it is that we are all there to work together, even the people that you disagree with. It's one big piece of solidarity for the art. There's really no sense in standing on one side of the line and calling each other faggots and rednecks. That's not going to really change anything. The best thing we can do right now is to put out a message of unity and start to educate each other as to what we're going to do to build ourselves back up as a country. Ultimately, it's about unity. It's about conversation. And it's about being American in an extremely volatile time.