Stop 64
Each stop is a moment in time, a time requiring decision, a decision influenced by the past and one which will influence the future. No matter who we are, where we come from, what choices we are faced with, the decisions we act on define our destiny. A destiny each must necessarily endure.
The box car shown here is modelled after the cattle car. Cattle cars used to transport Jews to concentration camps in the Second World War and animals to slaughter houses right here in Toronto up until very recently. The cattle car is a symbol of all those who are born into suffering and for those whose destinies are defined by powerless circumstance. It is a reminder that there is a huge range of suffering even though we can only know it in relative terms.
While we must all endure our own destiny, defined by either the power to decide or through powerless circumstance; there is nobody that can tell us how to endure it. And this is where true freedom lies. No matter what train we are on, no matter the reason for our journey, knowing we have a choice in how we endure, gives back the power to endure.
