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Catalano has said that the statues are a representation of his own life. He was a native of Morocco who emigrated to France. He believes that emigrants and travelers leave a part of themselves behind that they have to forget, but yet it is always connected to them.In 2004, when he was constructing his first traveler statue, Catalano found a flaw, which gave him the idea to remove a large part of the statue. To him it represented an emigrant being "uprooted" and also depicted "suffering". Even though the statues represent something left behind, they all carry a bag and seem "to walk towards the hope of a better future".The sculptures have been interpreted as a visual representation of the losses experienced by emigrants.
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