The graphic designs showcase nearby waters, indigenous plant life, and help tell Othello’s long history as a landing place for immigrant and refugee communities for 100+ years. Vibrant, open and comfortable, the clinic’s interior is home to other local art – with frivolity and whimsy built into this non-traditional medical facility to reflect its innate community spirit, energy and mission.

Standing Tall Between Earth and Space 

For me, power came to me as a kid who refused to be stuck on the practicalities of reality. I rooted my digital design for this Xbox structure in a young man standing tall, focused ahead on possibility – the immense potential of his imagination looming halfway between Earth and Space.  

My message in this installation is to “Dream big like the Sky. There is no ceiling. There are no boundaries.” Being showcased at the Gorge amid nature’s wide-open and ever-evolving backdrop placed the dreams I had as a young artist into a landscape that brought them to life.

Steelheads Alley 

Directly across from T-Mobile Park, Steelheads Alley is a vibrant meeting spot hosting a dynamic wall mural tribute to the Seattle Steelheads, our city’s 1946 Negro League baseball team.

I first wanted to showcase the community aspect of these games, so I recreated the neighborhood’s age-old Sunday baseball game that was played at Garfield Park. Neighbors are watching the game up in tree line, but all the athletes on the field are from our city’s historical diverse Negro teams, first women's softball teams, Native American teams, and Asian teams. 

What excited me most about this project was the opportunity to recreate and preserve a huge part of our often-overlooked history on such a grand scale — for my local SoDo community and for the state of Washington – in a public spot where many visitors and neighbors can witness it. 

Interior Gym Mural:
Relay Races

Relay races are a display of endurance, and endurance is what makes communities like Othello in South Seattle great. When commissioned to create an artwork for the community gym at the Odessa Brown Clinic, I reflected on how relay require people to work as a team and to pass on something to the next person or generation. What does it mean for athletes to pass the baton to present-day athletes? What wisdom and history do they want the community to hold?  

It was easy to choose our central figure, given our mural would live above the basketball court.  For 40 years, 3x Hall of Famer basketball player and coach Lenny Wilkens has championed children and given back to the community that embraced him here in Seattle through his Lenny Wilkens Foundation. 

From this central focus,  I added radiating colorful rings that dynamically pass on information, influence, and care to the next generation – a diverse community of kids profiting from the enduring exchange.

Mountaintop Perspective 

The Lake and Lake People: Here Before Us 

When I was young, I went on adventures running errands to Lake City with my grandmother. She drove and I gazed out the window at all the bright business signs illuminating the sky. Later I learned how Lake City was a Railway passage with a train stop entitled simply "The Lake.” Eventually, an auto sales industry shaped the neighborhood's development and character. 

Before all of this however, the hah-chu-ahbsh (Lake People), now of the Duwamish tribe inhabited this region from the end of the glacial period until losing their rights in 1854. In 1949, incorporated into a township, Lake City was annexed in 1954 when Seattle’s city limits were expanded. 

My public art piece represents the bright and bustling history and neighborhoods that make up Seattle's Lake City area at present — at the same time, honoring Seattle's host tribe and the ancestors of our area's only indigenous tribe, the Duwamish.

Othello Square is a creative, community-driven development in one of the most diverse zip codes in the country. Central to this inclusive and energetic complex in South Seattle’s Othello neighborhood is the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic for kids, teens, and young adults.

Visible from the street and positioned between dimensional panels that reflect the many skin tones of an inclusive community that is two-thirds nonwhite and 50% immigrant are my large exterior 3D architectural panels. Emulating metal etchings, these laser-perforated designs celebrate Othello’s diverse multi-cultural history and tradition of welcoming all peoples.  

Just days before its release of Xbox Series X and S, Microsoft Corp. unveiled a 40-foot-tall replica of the Xbox console in the dreamlike setting of Washington State’s Gorge Amphitheatre. 

The structure – four stories tall and edge-to-edge with LED – became an ode to dreams featuring a rotation of art from local artists as part of the “Power Your Dreams” Xbox campaign. In this expansive landscape, if only for a short time, we could see a window into others’ dreams…  

This mural was created to help beautify Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. By partnering with Urban ArtWorks – which engages youth and artists to create public art that inspires – I was able to design a public-facing art piece that locals as well as Outdoor Research staff could all come out and help paint. It enabled me to give back more than the finished art. 

Headquartered in SoDo, Outdoor Research really wanted to give back to its neighborhood. My artwork brought a mountaintop perspective down to street level for local viewers. It helps them bring to mind being up in the mountaintops and interacting with our beautiful PNW landscape. 

When I was drawing as a young kid, I didn't have many influencers who gave, fostered or taught the way Urban ArtWorks does. They gave me a chance to combine my diverse artistic influences, from Disney and Marvel to graffiti and street style to create a dynamic, colorful landscape that community members young and old helped co-create.

Being – Past Present and Future  

As part of this inaugural artist-led art installation, I collaborated on my debut public art project with local artists: Sneke One, Scott Méxcal, and Takiyah Ward, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) elders, cultural advisors, and production teams to create art for this temporary multimedia experience – during long-term construction along the Seattle waterfront. 

Among its shifting landscape, our goal was to gain knowledge and truth to better understand how to successfully navigate present circumstances. So, as multi-generational storytellers and artists from diverse communities, we created murals within the Past, Present, and Future framework. My piece “Being” was part of the past story – celebrating how Seattle’s waterfront has always been constantly flowing and growing and growing. 

The graphical, colorful digital designs printed on vinyl focused on fluid, ongoing movement – representative of Native Americans and immigrants and local waters – all coming together as the current Seattle waterfront we are being, together.