00:00Detroit is a special place like this is the blackest city in America but it's not just
00:16because of the demographic. Black love resides here. I have a family full of women like I'm the
00:26youngest of seven all girls and my mother she's my biggest fan biggest supporter she is the hero.
00:33My relationship with my mother and my family is represented in all of my pieces in some way shape
00:40or form. I come from the loud-mouthed woman the quiet woman the messy woman to the clean it up
00:47woman like every aspect of black woman that's where I come from. The inspiration behind me
00:55choosing to paint black women it was tragedy you know the tragedy of police brutality we always
01:01highlight the men who die but we rarely focus on the women you know we know Sandra Bland we know
01:08Breonna Taylor but we don't know the in-between especially the Sandra Bland that was the one
01:13that was when I flipped my narrative that's when I knew my narrative I had to make my work speak for
01:20black women. I focus on the women that inspire me daily and it doesn't have to be a grand person but I
01:32paint Johnny the woman with the afro I paint her often because she's the one who can evoke any emotion
01:42that I'm trying to tell in a painting. It feels amazing to have murals and public art in in a place where I live the most.
01:54That's why I make sure that my murals mimic my paintings. I want people to know that Sydney G James but that's a piece of art.
02:02It'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 happen to be outdoors.
02:10Because it is for them. Art is for the people. That makes this Vans collaboration even more perfect because my art came off the wall and my subject of my art that I paint on walls around the globe literally is now off the wall and onto a shoe.
02:28I want people to feel like they're wearing fine art on their feet when they purchase my collaboration shoe with Vans. 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.
02:48Johnny has now come off the wall and she's onto a shoe. She is revealing herself. She is aware of her blackness and she is on the spot and she is wherever somebody plants their feet.
03:01Tommy has now come off.
03:04Tommy has now come off the favorite womenoka buy music from French women with bad kings who took place withودyez and their feet.
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03:13However, we didn't hear this right when you see the Tod boy into pregnancy treatment as a woman who doesn't drink it anymore.
03:17If you think you're saying what they're creates a dude?
03:19Tommy has changed the, who you are with RESULT for the most often than the Öping Computing.
03:21It refers to one of these things to hang your life.
03:23telecom-29-29ish or paristhenes they're aiming to be gradually orientated.
03:25Now I found out that I found that are pretty cool your life is the sameuated and everybody who don't want to walk through the sky in the trunk.
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