As a youth, I was fascinated by the television show "The Golden Girls." Despite being a young Black queer boy growing up in projects on the southside of Chicago, I was thoroughly entertained by those four older Caucasian women and how they navigated life as a family unit in Miami, FL.  I have always admired that show and kept it in the back of my mind when I create my work, whereas I constantly remind myself that true art transcends labels and categories. And in the same way that the adventures of Dorothy & Co. connected to me, someone who was physically and geographically opposite of them, I aim to create work that similarly reaches audiences far outside my demographic.