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usc '26
Color Key Artist @zomastudios
#blackartist

This fall, I had the incredible opportunity to design and paint a mural for an elementary school in Pasadena, California through the incredible nonprofit organization @artsbridgegap . This project has been such a wonderful privilege, and working with these remarkable kids was an experience I will never forget.

I’d like to give a huge thank you to the Aveson students and staff, the @artsbridgegap team, and the mural’s talented co-designer @moseiako . You all made this possible🩷

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$"Pomegranates and Plate Shards" 📍212 Montrose Street (South Philly) • Last weekend I finished my first large-scale solo mural! This piece is my heart and soul on a wall and it wouldn't have happened without my incredible Project Manager/Curator @conradbenner , @muralarts , my two amazing assistants @woodseywoodzer and @gggreatwhite , my six amazing mural arts summer painting interns (@bob_the_goblin , @ironabz , @moseiako , @miarlln , Ro, and @mars.mb !!!) , and the generosity of @okdehmurals as well as the homeowners Sara and Clark. We somehow managed to bring my baby to life in 8 weeks flat! Creating a mural from start to finish really feels like going into battle sometimes and it really makes a difference having amazing people at your side to get through all of the hard parts. I am so grateful to everyone that lent a hand in this piece ❤️. • Installing a mural is just like hanging wallpaper and I was so grateful that I got to share the install process with my Dad (dabbled as an assistant) and Uncle (a lifelong paperhanger) who learned how to hang wallpaper from my Grandpa. • This mural is a love letter to my Dad's side of the family. It is inspired by identity, intergenerational stories and trauma, familial estrangement, as well as healing. I am named after my Grandpop who was a Wallpaper hanger in Philadelphia and creator of the National Wallpaper Hangers Guild (swipe for photos and a sick logo!). To be a person who holds a namesake is to live with the invisible, yet ever present, stories of another complex life lived. I wanted to explore the layering of my personal practice of healing (making plate shard mosaics) with the wallpaper backdrop of family, to tie both of our stories together. I think so much about how the stories we hear about family history growing up can both help us to better understand who we are, as well as pass on trauma and become stories that can hold us back. This mural is about finding peace in the fractures that can often come with family, represented through a broken plate.... *Continued in the comments*$

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