When the Mobile Pool hits Muirland Street

16 x 20“ on watercolor giclèe paper with archival inks.

Allow 7-10 business days for shipping. This printing process is preformed in a local art gallery that’s pretty busy due to their great quality. It will be worth the wait. 

Growing up on Muirland Street in Detroit, we didn’t have neighborhood pools. But once every summer this TRUCK would pull onto our block carrying a swimming pool.

You knew it had arrived because you could hear kids screaming from blocks away. That sound spread faster than any text message ever could.

Nobody cared what you were wearing. Some kids had swimsuits. Some wore shorts. We just wanted to get in the water.

I painted this because I realized something…

As adults, we spend a lot of time chasing happiness. As kids, happiness came rolling down the street.

This painting isn’t really about a pool.

It’s about community.

It’s about being invited.

It’s about a Detroit memory that disappeared, but still lives in the people who experienced it.

The last pictures my work in progress.  It shows this is NOT AI and comes from a real person…. Me :~)