Careful, happy, thoughtful, distracted are the faces of People I Saw But Never Met, a huge installation made by the Yemeni sculptor Zadok Ben-David, on display from April 8 to May 27 at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

3000 pieces of perfect, unfamiliar aluminum figures, taken by the shots made by the artist of Bayhan during his journeys to Europe, United States, Asia, Australia and Antarctica

A breakthrough that can show the likeness of the daily lives of billions of people even thousands and thousands of miles away.

A “hymn” to equality that the curator of the work describes in that way:

“Ben-David’s sculptural milieu comes at a critical point in our current socio-political climate … where heated debates about exclusion and borders versus inclusivity and multiplicity are part of our daily experience.”

In the end, as my friend Arthur says: “The world is full of obvious things that no one ever cares to observe.”