2026, Spraypaint on Canvas, 10 x 27.5ft

Positioned in the lobby of the South Entrance, All We’re is a work that considers connection as a universal language, one shaped as much by loss, memory, and care as by celebration and gathering.

Gesture, abstraction, and symbolic mark-making are threaded through with letterforms developed over four decades of practice, a visual language as personal as a signature, as communal as a wall. The statement found in the work is not from the artist but a quote that belonged to Joy Phrasavath, a beloved B-Boy whose presence shaped the culture of Atlanta and whose absence is still felt by all who knew him. Carried forward here, his words form the emotional foundation of the work, grounding it in lived experience and shared humanity. The sharp blue that moves through the painting is offered as a second quiet dedication, an ode to Radcliffe Bailey, the Atlanta artist who made that color his own.

Rather than a single declaration, the work operates as an open framework, a site of exchange that invites viewers to complete its meaning through their own memories, relationships, and encounters. In holding Joy’s voice at its center, the painting expands beyond the artist’s hand, positioning love and time as something collectively authored and continuously carried forward.

In this global moment and place of convergence, where nations meet in both competition and communion, the work turns the lens from outcome to connection. Here, love is not a conclusion. It is an active force, expansive, participatory, and unifying, rooted in the simple, profound act of showing up for one another while we can.