Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev, The Truth . . .

2008-2012, UCSF

"The Truth is I Am You" is a poem installed as a series of twelve speech balloons that line the covered walkway linking the School of Nursing and the School of Dentistry. The 300-foot installation highlights the diversity of cultures that exemplify the UCSF community. Each balloon displays a single line from the poem translated into one of 24 languages spoken by the student body including Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Urdu.