The Triton is a special place like this is the blackest city in America but it's not just because of a demographic and black love resides here. I have a family full of women like I'm the youngest of seven all girls and my mother she's my biggest fan biggest supporter she is the hero. My relationship with my mother and my family is represented in all of my pieces in some way shape or form. I come from the loud mouth woman the quiet woman the messy woman to the clean it up woman like every aspect the black woman that's where I come from. The inspiration behind me choosing to paint black women was tragedy you know the tragedy of police brutality we always highlight the men who die but we rarely focus on the women. You know we know Sandra Blan we know Brianna Taylor but we don't know the in between especially the Sandra Blan that was the one that was when I flipped my narrative that's when I knew my narrative. I had to make my work speak for black women. I focus on the women that inspired me daily and it doesn't have to be a grand person but I paint Johnny the woman with the Afro I paint her often because she's the one who can evoke any emotion that I'm trying to tell in a pain. It feels amazing to have murals and public art in a place where I love the most. That's why I make sure that my murals mimic my paintings. I want people to know that's city G James but that's a piece of art. It's not like something designed it's not like a billboard that's I want people to feel like they're looking at a painting that they're just happy to be outdoors because it is for them artists for the people. That makes this dance collaboration even more perfect because my art came off the wall and then my subject of my art that I paint on walls around the globe literally. It's now off the wall and on to a shoot. Now I want people to feel like they're wearing fine art or their feet when they purchase my collaboration shoot with dance. I created my own camouflage pattern. I have two countries highlighted that's Ghana and Sierra Leone and then I have the Detroit map that you can see on top of that. Johnny has now come off the wall and she's on to a shoot. She is revealing herself. She is aware of her blackness and she is on the spot and she is wherever somebody plans their feet.