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When Black folks actually started to move out there, it was exciting because the music was different, the style was different, everything was different. I was finally seeing people that looked like me.

— Taylor Simmons

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That stuck with me. If I’m thinking about it too much, I’m trying to be loved. If I’m just painting, it’s real. It’s true. It flows. It’s just me moving. I’m not asking for permission.

I had this reckoning: life is really short. I was like, all right, let me actually pursue this.

I painted this gang member for my solo show. Homie’s got the face tattoos, and he’s throwing gang signs.

If you look at it and you feel the rhythm of what’s going on, that says it’s successful. More so than if everything was exact.

It’s like a tender moment — one friend holding up another friend.” In that world, “a man can only really touch or support another man in these instances. So I thought I’d make a painting of it.

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