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I painted this piece in 2008 when I was living in Richmond, CA. I lived in the "Iron Triangle" area of Richmond where there were shootings, fights, and murders almost daily. The fact that I lived next door to a Baptist Church, across the street from the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and less than 500 feet away from a Muslim owned business, did not seem to deter these folks from criminal behavior...I was moved to create this piece because of my experience living in that neighborhood. My message here is pretty clear.

Michelle “Chelle” Brantley is a portrait artist, artistic painter, and illustrator. A native of the East Bay Area, Oakland, CA, Chelle began to draw at the early age of three years old. Chelle was not quite a child prodigy, but she always had a great fondness for the arts; probably more so than other children her age. She spent most of her time drawing and tracing pictures, reading books, listening to different types of music and watching old films. Chelle’s love of music theatre and film contributes greatly to the subjects she chooses to translate onto canvas. Chelle began painting in her early twenty’s right after the death of her father. What began initially as a form of therapy for her loss became a new found career, and she has...