The conversation has begun

Thus say the signs around the still unfinished Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. "Keeper of the past ... or beacon of the future?" "Institution or inspiration?" "Architectural wonder or life changing experience?"

This is kind of a straight ahead, sun at my back, deepened blue sky to resonate with the windows, commercial versus artistic photo.

It would be nice if protecting human rights in Holocaust events, or Armenian struggles, or during Cambodia's Pol Pot scourge or the recent Rwanda genocide was as pristine and beautiful as this. The fact is that fighting for human rights is more often a struggle than not.