it's always the quiet ones

i volunteered with Free Arts, a nyc based arts outreach group, to do arts and crafts with kids in Harlem this weekend. i got buddied up with 12 year old Joshua who seemed to open up once i got him going on some projects. we got to build models of bridges, make large scale graffitti drawings, and create our own designer baseball hats. Joshua decided the "theme' of his hat would be "I am not nice" which he scrawled across the front with black marker. i wasn't buying his claim he was all that bad, but hey who doesn't do a little fronting now and then? at least i got him to draw focus away from his "mean" mantra by having him add a nice little portrait of his cat at the top.


and just when you think they're not listening, he surprised me by creating his subway mosaic project in honor of me. not nice? nice try.