Act # 3 Southwestern High School is the third video in a series of four (Abandonment Series) in which I explore the concept and experience of abandonment. The history of the Southwestern High School building and the social reasons or consequences of it being abandoned today still resonate. The students who attended Southwestern were predominantly Latin America, and their families worked in the nearby Cadillac Factory, which officially closed its doors in 1994 and during its peak employed an estimated 12,000 people. Families were forced to move to areas where there were available jobs. What I hope to create is a way of sharing an experience with the spectator in which they can get a glimpse of a personal experience that I am making public. It is a call to sit down with the uncomfortable feeling of abandonment and allow yourself to experience it and maybe be able to bear it.