"Man In Between Two Fences," Spray Paint, oil paint, mixed media on masonite, 3'x4'
​This is a portrait of a homeless man that I took around my neighborhood, Koreatown and embellished.  He is walking and slightly trapped in between two fences.  The picture is also dark and light.  There is a dark sky in the background, and his face is the light of the painting.  He also has a heart where his heart is, and a rainbow above his pocket.  A house that he doesn’t have is in the background with smoke coming out of the chimney.  There are different types of flowers growing to represent growth, and a rainbow over a dripping cloud to symbolize a new day.  The sign in the background is like a street sign, and I often use them in my paintings with no writing, to show them literally as a sign, and to show that the man is going nowhere, or for us to wonder what that sign means.  There is also a cloud on his shirt to represent the gloom of his mood.  My painting is trying to portray a person in a metaphysical manner.