David Wojnarowicz, What’s This Little Guy’s Job in the World, 1990

Narrator: Here, Wojnarowicz has photographed his own hand, holding a tiny frog. David Kiehl speaks about the image.

David Kiehl: And he's looking at this little frog and he's going, "What's this little guy's job in the world?" I think that's David, talking to us, and talking about himself, saying, "What is our real job in this world? What are we doing? What are you doing as a human being? What are you giving back to the whole, all of humanity? To the world? To the natural world? To your social world? What is your job in this world?"

And I think that is, to me, the parting shot of David. He's asking us to sit there, to think about what are we really doing here? What have we done for the guy sitting next to you on the subway, the old man or old woman crossing the street? What have you done? What have you done about the fox in the woods? What have you done?

And I think this is David─to me, it's the most profound statement of David. It sums him up for me.