Barney Zeitz was asked to design a sculpture to honor Walter Suskind to be placed in a marble niche in the lobby. There was a poem written on the back wall of the niche, and Barney suggested taking the poem off the wall and incorporating it into the design of the sculpture. He tried to symbolize what sacrifice Suskind made to save the children by having a metal shield in front of a glass shield. The poem goes from a dark, difficult feeling on the metal shield, to a hopeful, more positive feeling on the glass shield. Zeitz tried to build the sculpture using suggestions from the poem. "I feel the fingertips of your outstretching hand".
The metal fabrication is all hand cut, forged, and welded steel. Zeitz applied bronze to the surface of the steel with torches. The stained glass is fused and slumped onto a steel mold.