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The BO-Mobile has caused incredible joy to kids, teachers, swap meeters, bus stops, parking lots who have all been eager to talk and share their stories of their lives and love for art, especially prison art. After spending decades in the trenches of Dallas urban violence prevention, Tucson is a truly beautiful breath of fresh air and much needed sunshine in my life.
I have never taken a salary so that Bajito Onda could continue. The progress we have made as a global team of urban survivors has been all volunteer - very few donations or funding.
It is such a major accomplishment for our half million lives movement to see our prize prison art collection on licensed merchandise going worldwide!
We are living proof it can be done - that fallen persons in society together can rise above the rejection, exclusion and pain and finally have our voices heard and our faces seen whether the rest of ‘em like it or not!
I will never stop representing immigrants, convicts, and broken lives - because I am the first life touched by Bajito Onda.
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