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I've been feeling a lot of emotions, I feel like positively I feel like we're finally like having a voice
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waist. So as we were driving around LA one thing we've noticed is as the
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uprisings and the protests have died down beautiful art has started emerging from
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this moment. A lot of stores have been boarded up during the uprising and the
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protests that's been taking place all around LA here in Santa Monica and
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downtown LA and Hollywood and beautiful art is taking place on these boardings. I'm
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painting a pro-black image. I actually took the photo from an old 50s ad. It was a gun ad
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and it was just a white family on there. They're all smiling, like, ha, ha, ha. And I'm flipping it
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and I'm putting black people there because I want you guys to view us in that same light. It's
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like, it's more acceptable to see, you know, a white family with guns. And it's like
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okay, that's normal. But when black people have them, it's like, it's like
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They're afraid for their lives and it's so it's just not an image that you see. So that's kind of
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Where I'm going with it. I've been painting for a long time, but not really telling the story that I want to tell and I'm so in tune with
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The universe and everything that going on around me So I tapping into that energy So it almost like I finally have something to say now which is weird but I just just going with it As an artist it like when you get that inspiration you just got to run with it
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So to me what it shows is even in the time of grief and anger, these beautiful moments are rising up
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I'm very for Black Lives Matter. I think that what's going on is amazing and I want to be a part of it
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This is my way to contribute. I'm a painter, so... Are you planning on doing more of these
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Yes, I am. Next time I'll choose a spot with shade
