Growing up on the streets of Los Angeles was hard for me and my mother. As a single mother, she struggled to take care of us and make enough money each day to give us food. To kill time I would go to the skate park after school each day and watch the skaters. I dreamed of one day being as good as them, but I never had a board to practice. When I was about 10 my mother gave me a small digital camera. I started to take pictures of the skaters I watched each day and sold them to the skaters I watched. They loved each picture I took, and since then I have been selling them to different skate stores in LA. It has helped me find a better home for my mother, and I've been able to travel more across the world to further expand the diversity of my art. I like to base each of my pieces on my mom's condition, of total colorblindness, so each item comes in the way she sees the world.