I first met Susa Templin on an airplane. After a few hours of conversation she invited me to Washington, D.C. to witness her installation at the Goethe-Institut there. This was a surprise. I had been flipping through a couple of exhibition catalogs giving her my first impressions of her art when suddenly she was offering to take me with her “behind the scenes” of her creation. I hesitated to change my flight at the last minute like that, but in the end I accepted her offer. It felt like my seat had just been upgraded and I wanted to know what my new view would be like...