“I have been drawing my whole life. I am self-taught and have always wanted to do this my own way. We all have influences but I hate to be pushed into a mold. I was born me and I am going to die me. We only live once. I have done music and other things but it always led me back to art. I left doing music and went to New York, Vegas and Atlanta, but I moved back home in 2013. I was going through changes and prayed about it and asked the Great Creator to lead me in the right direction and the next day friends picked me up and took me to Art Walk for the first time. A couple of weeks later, I won an art contest for E3, the biggest gaming convention in the world, and this has been my path ever since. I paint the murals because they are a gift to the city. They are big pieces that catch the eye and I can tell stories within murals. I did my own rendition of the Sistine Chapel. It is God giving out gifts and talents to the world. He is giving out music, art and love. One cherub has a turntable and another has a spray paint can. There is a snake at the bottom and that is the serpent trying to infiltrate what we are trying to do here in Mobile. There are different races in the clouds and the azaleas are attacking the snake, trying to keep the serpent down. God has Love tattooed on his arm. At the time I had a beard like God’s. We are made in God’s image. I wish my aunties and the old people who raised me could see this.  When I was a kid, they used to bring me downtown to the Peanut Shop and I know they would never have thought to see me do work like this on Dauphin Street, a place where they couldn’t drink water from the water fountains. This would be a dream come true for them and I have their names on the azaleas. Each one of the azaleas represents a person in my life who has passed away. I wish they could see what we are doing now. It has a lot of meaning to me. Even the Johnny Cash I just finished at last Art Walk. He was an American rebel. We all walk a line every day. We wake up and go to a job we don’t want to, some people conform to a life they didn’t want. Johnny Cash did what he wanted to do. He represents the things I want to do in life with art and music. He was rough and raw, just like that mural. It is not my most refined piece of work, but that is how I feel about it.  When I did it. I didn’t know how other people would feel about it, but people have been glad it is there. Tom and Buzz who own the building have let us do these murals for over the year.I can put whatever I want on those walls. It feels good to say what is on my mind without getting in trouble. I have had a lot of art work that I wanted to get out to the public and they let me have that chance with these walls. There are several of us who are doing this work and we feed off each other with this street art. The new age and talent of the millennium babies are taking what is going on right now and making it our work. We were born in an age where there was a sense of togetherness. I was raised a different way than my mother or my grandparents and I don’t have those animosities. I went to a mixed school where I didn’t see a shade and grew up with a sense of freedom. Some of the old traditions are dying out, but it is time that some of that stuff changes. We are grown now and putting positive energy in the world. We want to make the bad things better. People are talking about conversation again. When people like Kaepernick make a statement, they are just making people think and that is good. Come up with a better way of doing things instead of violent movements. People are scared that they will never make it or make a change. This art makes a change. I love Mobile and it starts at home. If you can’t fix home, you can’t fix anywhere else. I couldn’t have done this when I was a kid because of the old mindset, but that has changed and we are understanding where we are coming from and can make a change together.”